Citizen science and habitat modelling facilitates conservation planning for crabeater seals in the Weddell Sea

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• conservation planning 100%
• citizen 84%
• science 57%
• habitat 54%
• sea 47%
• modeling 36%
• support vector machine 28%
• satellite image 26%
• protected area 26%
• ecology 22%
• ice 19%
• pack ice 19%
• breeding season 18%
• population trend 17%
• bathymetry 14%
• Antarctica 12%
• policy 8%
• ocean 8%
• water 4%
• method 3%

Agriculture & Biology

• seals 90%
• planning 83%
• habitats 50%
• ice 22%
• Euphausia superba 20%
• support vector machines 19%
• citizen scientists 12%
• marine protected areas 10%
• ecology 10%
• Antarctica 8%
• oceans 7%
• species abundance 7%
• conservation areas 7%
• breeding season 6%
• water 3%
• methodology 1%