Predicting species occurrences : issues of accuracy and scale / edited by J. Michael Scott [and others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 751-835) and index.

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Introductory Essay: Critical Issues for Improving Predictions -- Pt. 1. Conceptual Framework -- Introduction to Part 1: The Conceptual Basis of Species Ditribution Modeling: Time for a Paradigm Shift? -- Ch. 1. Foundations of Species-Environment Relations -- Ch. 2. Standard Terminology: Toward a Common Language to Advance Ecological Understanding and Application -- Ch. 3. Linking Populations, and Habitats: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? -- Ch. 4. Approaches to Habitat Modeling: The Tensions between Pattern and Process and between Specificity and Generality -- Ch. 5. Case Studies of the Use of Environmental Gradients in Vegetation and Fauna Modeling: Theory and Practice in Australia and New Zealand -- Ch. 6. Habitat Models Based on Numerical Comparisons -- Ch. 7. The Role of Category Definition in Habitat Models: Practical and Logical Limitations of Using Boolean, Indexed, Probabilistic, and Fuzzy Categories -- Ch. 8. Use of Regional-scale Exploratory Studies to Determine Bird-habitat Relationships -- Pt. 2. Temporal and Spatial Scales -- Introduction to Part 2: Role of Temporal and Spatial Scale -- Ch. 9. Predicting Distribution and Abundance: Thinking within and between Scales -- Ch. 10. A Comparison of Fine- and Coarse-resolution Environmental Variables Toward Predicting Vegetation Distribution in the Mojave Desert -- Ch. 11. The Influence of Spatial Scale on Landscape Pattern Description and Wildlife Habitat Assessment -- Ch. 12. Predicting the Occurrence of Amphibians: An Assessment of Multiple-scale Models -- Ch. 13. Dynamic Patterns of Association between Environmental Factors and Island Use by Breeding Seabirds -- Ch. 14. Geographic Modeling of Temporal Variability in Habitat Quality of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo on the Sacramento River, Miles 196-219, California -- Ch. 15. Effects of Spatial Scale on the Predictive Ability of Habitat Models for the Green Woodpecker in Switzerland -- Ch. 16. Wildlife Habitat Modeling in an Adaptive Framework: The Role of Alternative Models -- Ch. 17. Contrasting Determinants of Abundance in Ancestral and Colonized Ranges of an Invasive Brood Parasite -- Ch. 18. Biodiversity Conflict Analysis at Multiple Spatial Scales -- Ch. 19. A Collaborative Approach in Adaptive Management at a Large-landscape Scale -- Ch. 20. Modeling Wildlife Distribution within Urbanized Environments: An Example of the Eurasian Badger Meles meles L. in Britain -- Pt. 3. Modeling Tools and Accuracy Assessment -- Introduction to Part 3: Modeling Tools and Accuracy Assessment -- Ch. 21. What Are the Appropriate Characteristics of an Accuracy Measure? -- Ch. 22. A Minimalist Approach to Mapping Species' Habitat: Pearson's Planes of Closest Fit -- Ch. 23. Geospatial Data in Time: Limits and Prospects for Predicting Species Occurrences -- Ch. 24. Predictions and Their Validation: Rare Plants in the Central Highlands, Victoria, Australia -- Ch. 25. Semiquantitative Models for Predicting the Spatial Distribution of Plant Species -- Ch. 26. Patch-based Models to Predict Species Occurrence: Lessons from Salmonid Fishes in Streams -- Ch. 27. Autologistic Regression Modeling of American Woodcock Habitat Use with Spatially Dependent Data -- Ch. 28. A Neural Network Model for Predicting Northern Bobwhite Abundance in the Rolling Red Plains of Oklahoma -- Ch. 29. Incorporating Detection Uncertainty into Presence-Absence Surveys for Marbled Murrelet -- Ch. 30. Accuracy of Bird Range Maps Based on Habitat Maps and Habitat Relationship Models -- Ch. 31. A Monte Carlo Experiment for Species Mapping Problems -- Ch. 32. Measuring Prediction Uncertainty in Models of Species Distribution -- Ch. 33. Toward Better Atlases: Improving Presence-absence Information -- Ch. 34. Predicting the Distributions of Songbirds in Forests of Central Wisconsin -- Ch. 35. Poisson Regression: A Better Approach to Modeling Abundance Data? -- Ch. 36. Predicting Vertebrate Occurrences from Species Habitat Associations: Improving the Interpretation of Commission Error Rates -- Ch. 37. Assessment of Spatial Autocorrelation in Empirical Models in Ecology -- Ch. 38. Ranked Modeling of Small Mammals Based on Capture Data -- Ch. 39. Calibration Methodology for an Individual-based, Spatially Explicit Simulation Model: Case Study of White-tailed Deer in the Florida Everglades -- Pt. 4. Predicting Species Presence and Abundance -- Introduction to Part 4: Predicting Species Presence and Abundance -- Ch. 40. Multimodeling: New Approaches for Linking Ecological Models -- Ch. 41. Challenges of Modeling Fungal Habitat: When and Where Do You Find Chanterelles? -- Ch. 42. Predicting Presence/Absence of Plant Species for Range Mapping: A Case Study from Wyoming -- Ch. 43. A Model to Predict the Occurrence of Surviving Butternut Trees in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains -- Ch. 44. Predicting Meadow Communities and Species Occurrences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem -- Ch. 45. Modeling Species Richness and Habitat Suitability for Taxa of Conservation Interest -- Ch. 46. Discontinuity in Stream-fish Distributions: Implications for Assessing and Predicting Species Occurrence -- Ch. 47. A GIS-based Habitat Model for Wood Thrush, Hylocichla mustelina, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- Ch. 48. Controlling Bias in Biodiversity Data -- Ch. 49. Modeling Cowbird Occurrences and Parasitism Rates: Statistical and Individual-based Approaches -- Ch. 50. Modeling Bird Abundance from Forest Inventory Data in the Boreal Mixed-wood Forests of Canada -- Ch. 51. Species Commonness and the Accuracy of Habitat-relationship Models -- Ch. 52. Spatial Analysis of Stopover Habitats of Neotropical Migrant Birds -- Ch. 53. Effects of Niche Width on the Performance and Agreement of Avian Habitat Models -- Ch. 54. A Test and Comparison of Wildlife-habitat Modeling Techniques for Predicting Bird Occurrence at a Regional Scale -- Ch. 55. Distributional Prediction Based on Ecological Niche Modeling of Primary Occurrence Data -- Ch. 56. Statistical Mapping of Count Survey Data -- Ch. 57. Influence of Selected Environmental Variables on GIS-habitat Models Used for Gap Analysis -- Ch. 58. A Distribution Model for the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) in the Jura Mountains, Switzerland -- Pt. 5. Predicting Species: Populations and Productivity -- Introduction to Part 5: Mapping a Chimera? -- Ch. 59. Functional Definition of Landscape Structure Using a Gradient-based Approach -- Ch. 60. Modeling Habitat-based Viability from Organism to Population -- Ch. 61. Relations between Canopy Cover and the Occurrence and Productivity of California Spotted Owls -- Ch. 62. Using a Spatially Explicit Model to Analyze Effects of Habitat Management on Northern Spotted Owls -- Ch. 63. Estimating the Effective Area of Habitat Patches in Heterogeneous Landscapes -- Ch. 64. Demographic Monitoring and the Identification of Transients in Mark-recapture Models -- Pt. 6. Future Directions -- Ch. 65. Predicting Species Occurrences: Progress, Problems, and Prospects -- Literature Cited -- Contributors -- Index.

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