Chapter 3: Modelling the habitat preferences and distribution
Chapter 3. sdmpredictors: an R package for species distribution modelling predictor datasets
... ENVIREM The ENVIREM dataset is a set of 16 climatic and 2 topographic variables that can be used in modelling species' distributions. The strengths of this dataset include their close ties to ecological processes, ...
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Habitat preferences and distribution of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) west of Scotland
... GAMs have been extremely useful in modelling marine mammal distributions and investigating habi- tat preferences (Bailey & Thompson 2009, Marubini et al. 2009, Embling et al. 2010). However, one of the ...
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Habitat mapping and species distribution modelling of the endangered Bulloak Jewel Butterfly
... Forest vegetation and ecological communities are of particular importance as habitats, as they are presently at risk in many parts of Australia (Sands and New, 2002). The habitats of many rare and endangered plants and ...
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Habitat modelling and the ecology of the marsh tit (Poecile palustris).
... bird habitat, particularly for species with large territories such as the Marsh ...Tit habitat using lidar data, Broughton et ...bird distribution data to quantify habitat preferences, ...
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Population Assessment and Habitat Distribution Modelling of High Value Corylus jacquemontii for
... and habitat degradation of the species for fodder, fuel, food and medicinal purposes have caused rapid depletion from natural ...the distribution of potential habitats of ...
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Exploration during early life: distribution, habitat and orientation preferences in juvenile king penguins
... During the last glaciation period, which ended ~ 18, 000 years ago, presumably few refuges existed for king penguins (e.g. Gough Island, the Falkland Islands and New Zealand), as they require ice-free land to breed [68]. ...
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The habitat preferences of web building spiders
... Cobbold and Supp (2011) also looked at how changes in shrub module designs could encourage changes in the distribution of the web-building spiders Theridion and Dictyn. Both species build their webs on module ...
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DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS AND HABITAT PREFERENCES OF MOUNTAIN VASCULAR PLANT SPECIES IN THE SILESIAN UPLANDS (SOUTHERN POLAND)
... species has been supplemented with Lonicera nig- ra and Cirsium erisithales. Many mountain species occurring in the Silesian Uplands have localities distributed throughout the whole region and thus they do not represent ...
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Chapter 6. The relevance of ecogeographical variables for marine habitat suitability modelling of Owenia fusiformis
... of 3, 9, 17 and 33 pixels, corresponding to 750, 2250, 4250 and 8250 m, respectively, were used for this ...of 3, 9, 17 and 33 pixels, were chosen because they provide an adequate cover of different spatial ...
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Similarity in habitat preferences impedes human elephant
... widespread distribution of people. But using present-day habitat selection patterns, we can attempt to estimate displacement and other consequences of human ...
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Dynamic habitat suitability modelling reveals rapid poleward distribution shift in a mobile apex predator
... the distribution of suitable black marlin habitat within the south-west Pacific Ocean and its association with major oceanographic ...suitable habitat extends across the south-west Pacific Ocean ...
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Habitat Plants And Foraging Preferences In Termites Of The Genus Anacanthotermes
... —————————— —————————— 1. INTRODUCTION The feeding sources, volume and availability of food considerably limit both the distribution and the scope of any population, including termites. Therefore, it is entirely ...
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Toward community predictions : Multi-scale modelling of mountain breeding birds' habitat suitability, landscape preferences, and environmental drivers
... the distribution of most species in this mountainous area, and that these species react negatively to higher temperatures as some are predicted to shift and some already shifted to higher altitudes ac- cording to ...
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Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchy
... Since WN-C UT and WN-C UT -T OPICS are con- structed from multinomials with Dirichlet priors, it is relatively straightforward to train them by collapsed Gibbs sampling (Griffiths and Steyvers, 2004), an iterative method ...
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A Framework for Modelling User Activity Preferences
... Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Motivation Information about an individual’s location can tell a lot about that person. For example, it can indicate what they like, what they are doing or what they are going to do. ...
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Predicting the Habitat Suitability of a Potential Invasive Fern, Cyclosorus afer in Lafia, Nigeria using Species Distribution Modelling
... of habitat suitability of ...the distribution of invasive plants is such that these plants can only be established in areas with no climatic barriers to their growth and reproduction (Scott and Panetta, ...
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Abundance and Habitat Preferences of Introduced Muscovy Ducks (Cairina moschata)
... CHAPTER TWO: STUDY AREA Research was conducted at 21 ponds in Tampa, Florida. Tampa has a subtropical climate with hot, rainy summers and mild, dry winters. All waterbodies surveyed for this study occur in ...
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Habitat predictive modelling of demersal fish species in the Azores
... bathymetric distribution for ...bathymetric distribution, with decreasing probabilities of occurrence from 30 to 500 m ...suitable habitat has the slope ...dactylopterus distribution, where ...
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Habitat preferences of the terrestrial vertebrate fauna of Weipa, Cape York Peninsula
... woodland habitat above economic ore, suggests that any relationship between the modal diameter at breast height of trees and the quality of the underlying orebody (Reddell, ...the distribution and abundance ...
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Chapter 3. The Normal Distribution
... We would expect 12.3% to score at least 27 if the scores were exactly Normal. 3.49 Open worksheet file ex03-49. We’ll create a histogram of the lengths and compute summary statistics using Analyze, Descriptive ...
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