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Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology: Concepts and Applications

Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology: Concepts and Applications

Drew, C. Ashton
Wiersma, Yolanda F.
Huettmann, Falk

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesMarine Life

ISBN10: 1441973893
ISBN13: 9781441973894
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 30 2010
Pages: 313
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Most projects in Landscape Ecology, at some point, define a species-habitat association. These models are inherently spatial, dealing with landscapes and their configurations. Whether coding behavioral rules for dispersal of simulated organisms through simulated landscapes, or designing the sampling extent of field surveys and experiments in real landscapes, landscape ecologists must make assumptions about how organisms experience and utilize the landscape. These convenient working postulates allow modelers to project the model in time and space, yet rarely are they explicitly considered. The early years of landscape ecology necessarily focused on the evolution of effective data sources, metrics, and statistical approaches that could truly capture the spatial and temporal patterns and processes of interest. Now that these tools are well established, we reflect on the ecological theories that underpin the assumptions commonly made during species distribution modeling and mapping. This is crucial for applying models to questions of global sustainability.

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