Table 3.

List of static and dynamic explanatory covariates used to model and predict the distribution of marine predators breeding at the Falkland Islands.

Explanatory covariate	Source
Distance to colony (km)	Calculated using the accCost function in R package gdistance
Density of animals from other colonies	Calculated using the equation Null density = population size/distance to breeding colony2
Bathymetry	30 arc-second gridded bathymetric data (GEBCO_2014 Grid, GEBCO)
Slope	Calculated from GEBCO_2014 Grid in R
Sea Surface Temperature (SST)	SST, Daily optimum interpolation dataset (NOAA, 1/4°, daily)
Sea Level Anomaly (SLA)	Global ocean physics reanalysis glorys12v1 dataset (EU Copernicus, 1/12°, daily mean)
Eddy Kinetic Energy (EKE)	Calculated from the U and V zonal and meridian geostrophic currents, where EKE = ½ × (U² + V²). Global ocean physics reanalysis glorys12v1 dataset (EU Copernicus, 1/12°, daily mean)