Harnessing citizen science for marine conservation in Malta: a comparative analysis of GAM and MaxEnt models in bottlenose dolphin habitat mapping

Francesca Soster, Tim Awbery, Nina Vérité–Taulet, Timothy Zammit, Kimberly Terribile

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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.19804
Published: 2025-08-05
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@article{allodium:10.7717/peerj.19804,
  title = {Harnessing citizen science for marine conservation in Malta: a comparative analysis of GAM and MaxEnt models in bottlenose dolphin habitat mapping},
  author = {Francesca Soster and Tim Awbery and Nina Vérité–Taulet and Timothy Zammit and Kimberly Terribile},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {PeerJ},
  doi = {10.7717/peerj.19804},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19804}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Harnessing citizen science for marine conservation in Malta: a comparative analysis of GAM and MaxEnt models in bottlenose dolphin habitat mapping
AU  - Francesca Soster
AU  - Tim Awbery
AU  - Nina Vérité–Taulet
AU  - Timothy Zammit
AU  - Kimberly Terribile
PY  - 2025
JO  - PeerJ
DO  - 10.7717/peerj.19804
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Soster, F., Awbery, T., Vérité–Taulet, N., Zammit, T., & Terribile, K. (2025). Harnessing citizen science for marine conservation in Malta: a comparative analysis of GAM and MaxEnt models in bottlenose dolphin habitat mapping. PeerJ. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19804

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