Random forest assessment of correlation between environmental factors and genetic differentiation of populations: Case of marine mussels Mytilus

Summary: The novel machine learning technique Random Forest (RF) was used to test if the genetic differentiation of populations of marine species may be related to any of the key environmental variables known to shape species distributions. The study was performed in North and Baltic Sea characteriz...

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Main Authors: Tomasz Kijewski, Malgorzata Zbawicka, Jakob Strand, Hans Kautsky, Jonne Kotta, Merli Rätsep, Roman Wenne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Oceanologia
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0078323418300927