Predicting species occurrences : issues of accuracy and scale /
edited by J. Michael Scott [and others].
- xvii, 868 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 751-835) and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Introductory Essay: Critical Issues for Improving Predictions -- Conceptual Framework -- Introduction to Part 1: The Conceptual Basis of Species Ditribution Modeling: Time for a Paradigm Shift? -- Foundations of Species-Environment Relations -- Standard Terminology: Toward a Common Language to Advance Ecological Understanding and Application -- Linking Populations, and Habitats: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? -- Approaches to Habitat Modeling: The Tensions between Pattern and Process and between Specificity and Generality -- Case Studies of the Use of Environmental Gradients in Vegetation and Fauna Modeling: Theory and Practice in Australia and New Zealand -- Habitat Models Based on Numerical Comparisons -- The Role of Category Definition in Habitat Models: Practical and Logical Limitations of Using Boolean, Indexed, Probabilistic, and Fuzzy Categories -- Use of Regional-scale Exploratory Studies to Determine Bird-habitat Relationships -- Temporal and Spatial Scales -- Introduction to Part 2: Role of Temporal and Spatial Scale -- Predicting Distribution and Abundance: Thinking within and between Scales -- A Comparison of Fine- and Coarse-resolution Environmental Variables Toward Predicting Vegetation Distribution in the Mojave Desert -- The Influence of Spatial Scale on Landscape Pattern Description and Wildlife Habitat Assessment -- Predicting the Occurrence of Amphibians: An Assessment of Multiple-scale Models -- Dynamic Patterns of Association between Environmental Factors and Island Use by Breeding Seabirds -- Geographic Modeling of Temporal Variability in Habitat Quality of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo on the Sacramento River, Miles 196-219, California -- Effects of Spatial Scale on the Predictive Ability of Habitat Models for the Green Woodpecker in Switzerland -- Wildlife Habitat Modeling in an Adaptive Framework: The Role of Alternative Models -- Contrasting Determinants of Abundance in Ancestral and Colonized Ranges of an Invasive Brood Parasite -- Biodiversity Conflict Analysis at Multiple Spatial Scales -- A Collaborative Approach in Adaptive Management at a Large-landscape Scale -- Modeling Wildlife Distribution within Urbanized Environments: An Example of the Eurasian Badger Meles meles L. in Britain -- Modeling Tools and Accuracy Assessment -- Introduction to Part 3: Modeling Tools and Accuracy Assessment -- What Are the Appropriate Characteristics of an Accuracy Measure? -- A Minimalist Approach to Mapping Species' Habitat: Pearson's Planes of Closest Fit -- Geospatial Data in Time: Limits and Prospects for Predicting Species Occurrences -- Predictions and Their Validation: Rare Plants in the Central Highlands, Victoria, Australia -- Semiquantitative Models for Predicting the Spatial Distribution of Plant Species -- Patch-based Models to Predict Species Occurrence: Lessons from Salmonid Fishes in Streams -- Autologistic Regression Modeling of American Woodcock Habitat Use with Spatially Dependent Data -- A Neural Network Model for Predicting Northern Bobwhite Abundance in the Rolling Red Plains of Oklahoma -- Incorporating Detection Uncertainty into Presence-Absence Surveys for Marbled Murrelet -- Accuracy of Bird Range Maps Based on Habitat Maps and Habitat Relationship Models -- A Monte Carlo Experiment for Species Mapping Problems -- Measuring Prediction Uncertainty in Models of Species Distribution -- Toward Better Atlases: Improving Presence-absence Information -- Predicting the Distributions of Songbirds in Forests of Central Wisconsin -- Poisson Regression: A Better Approach to Modeling Abundance Data? -- Predicting Vertebrate Occurrences from Species Habitat Associations: Improving the Interpretation of Commission Error Rates -- Assessment of Spatial Autocorrelation in Empirical Models in Ecology -- Ranked Modeling of Small Mammals Based on Capture Data -- Calibration Methodology for an Individual-based, Spatially Explicit Simulation Model: Case Study of White-tailed Deer in the Florida Everglades -- Predicting Species Presence and Abundance -- Introduction to Part 4: Predicting Species Presence and Abundance -- Multimodeling: New Approaches for Linking Ecological Models -- Challenges of Modeling Fungal Habitat: When and Where Do You Find Chanterelles? -- Predicting Presence/Absence of Plant Species for Range Mapping: A Case Study from Wyoming -- A Model to Predict the Occurrence of Surviving Butternut Trees in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains -- Predicting Meadow Communities and Species Occurrences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem -- Modeling Species Richness and Habitat Suitability for Taxa of Conservation Interest -- Discontinuity in Stream-fish Distributions: Implications for Assessing and Predicting Species Occurrence -- A GIS-based Habitat Model for Wood Thrush, Hylocichla mustelina, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- Controlling Bias in Biodiversity Data -- Modeling Cowbird Occurrences and Parasitism Rates: Statistical and Individual-based Approaches -- Modeling Bird Abundance from Forest Inventory Data in the Boreal Mixed-wood Forests of Canada -- Species Commonness and the Accuracy of Habitat-relationship Models -- Spatial Analysis of Stopover Habitats of Neotropical Migrant Birds -- Effects of Niche Width on the Performance and Agreement of Avian Habitat Models -- A Test and Comparison of Wildlife-habitat Modeling Techniques for Predicting Bird Occurrence at a Regional Scale -- Distributional Prediction Based on Ecological Niche Modeling of Primary Occurrence Data -- Statistical Mapping of Count Survey Data -- Influence of Selected Environmental Variables on GIS-habitat Models Used for Gap Analysis -- A Distribution Model for the Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) in the Jura Mountains, Switzerland -- Predicting Species: Populations and Productivity -- Introduction to Part 5: Mapping a Chimera? -- Functional Definition of Landscape Structure Using a Gradient-based Approach -- Modeling Habitat-based Viability from Organism to Population -- Relations between Canopy Cover and the Occurrence and Productivity of California Spotted Owls -- Using a Spatially Explicit Model to Analyze Effects of Habitat Management on Northern Spotted Owls -- Estimating the Effective Area of Habitat Patches in Heterogeneous Landscapes -- Demographic Monitoring and the Identification of Transients in Mark-recapture Models -- Future Directions -- Predicting Species Occurrences: Progress, Problems, and Prospects -- Literature Cited -- Contributors -- Index. Pt. 1. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Pt. 2. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Pt. 3. Ch. 21. Ch. 22. Ch. 23. Ch. 24. Ch. 25. Ch. 26. Ch. 27. Ch. 28. Ch. 29. Ch. 30. Ch. 31. Ch. 32. Ch. 33. Ch. 34. Ch. 35. Ch. 36. Ch. 37. Ch. 38. Ch. 39. Pt. 4. Ch. 40. Ch. 41. Ch. 42. Ch. 43. Ch. 44. Ch. 45. Ch. 46. Ch. 47. Ch. 48. Ch. 49. Ch. 50. Ch. 51. Ch. 52. Ch. 53. Ch. 54. Ch. 55. Ch. 56. Ch. 57. Ch. 58. Pt. 5. Ch. 59. Ch. 60. Ch. 61. Ch. 62. Ch. 63. Ch. 64. Pt. 6. Ch. 65.