AquaMaps is a tool for generating model-based, large-scale predictions of natural occurrences of species. For marine species, the model uses estimates of environmental preferences with respect to depth, water temperature, salinity, primary productivity, and association with sea ice or coastal
areas. These estimates of species preferences, called environmental envelopes, are derived from large sets of occurrence data available from online collection databases such as GBIF
(www.gbif.org) and OBIS (www.iobis.org), and from independent knowledge from the literature about the distribution of a given species and its habitat usage that are available in FishBase (and in SeaLifeBase and AlgaeBase for non-fish). The environmental envelopes are matched against local environmental conditions to determine the suitability of a given area in the ocean for a parti...

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