Ecological Niche Modeling (ENM)
Estimating the geographic distribution of human Tanapox and potential reservoirs using ecological niche modeling
... The ecological niche modeling (ENM) technique known as the Genetic Algorithm for Rule-Set Production (GARP) relates ecological information from the landscape of disease to create a set ...
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Ecological niche modeling predicting the potential distribution of Leishmania vectors in the Mediterranean basin: impact of climate change
... ensemble ecological niche modeling ...of modeling approaches (regression, machine learning and classification techniques) in order to ensure valid prediction of distribution of vectors under ...
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Ecological niche modeling to determine potential niche of Vaccinia virus: a case only study
... an ecological niche model (ENM) algorithm, we identify the environmental conditions under which VACV outbreaks have occurred, and determine additional loca- tions in two affected countries that may ...
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Human brucellosis occurrences in inner mongolia, China: a spatio temporal distribution and ecological niche modeling approach
... types of vegetation that can grow in certain areas, precipi- tation levels, temperature ranges, and other environmental conditions important to the survival and transmission of Brucella. Consequently, altitude was the ...
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Ecological niche modeling of Aedes mosquito vectors of chikungunya virus in southeastern Senegal
... As we expected, mosquito occurrence generally showed a positive association with variables reflecting precipitation, with the notable exception of Ae. tay- lori, whose occurrence showed a negative or complex relationship ...
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Ecological Niche Modeling of Zebra Species within Laikipia County, Kenya
... zebra niche have been ...ter-species niche comparison studies based on occupied geographic space have been ...on niche overlap of mountain hare subspe- cies in Europe vis a vis the invasion by the ...
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Ecological niche modeling of rabies in the changing Arctic of Alaska
... Our modeling approach provides predictions explicit in space and time and does not attempt to elucidate direct causal relationships between identified predictors and rabies ...the niche and help focus ...
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Ecological niche modeling of mosquito vectors of West Nile virus in St John’s County, Florida, USA
... The distribution of these mosquito vectors, like other exophilic mosquitoes, are influenced by surrounding cli- mate and ecological variables. In addition, this distribution gives deep insights on the virus ...
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Species’ Geographic Distributions Through Time: Playing Catch-up with Changing Climates
... using ecological niche modeling (ENM) approaches (sometimes mis-termed “species distribution modeling” approaches; Peterson 2006), researchers have established a series of points that ...
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Using remotely sensed and climate data to predict the current and potential future geographic distribution of a bird at multiple scales: the case of Agelastes meleagrides, a western African forest endemic
... result suggests that forest cover, and not necessarily cli- mate change, is the most important driver of the species’ geographic distribution. As such, national and regional conservation efforts should prioritize forest ...
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Parasite biodiversity faces extinction and redistribution in a changing climate
... of modeling method on forecasting range loss in response to the Thomas et ...to ecological niche modeling (62, 85) and is the most widely used method for the analysis of presence-only data in ...
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Mapping risk of plague in Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, China
... “Host Niche Hypothesis” (HNH) postulates that plague distributions are mediated by host distributions, such that the distribution of plague depends on an amal- gam of host ranges, and the presence of a particular ...
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Predicting Current and Future Geographical Distribution of Araucaria in Brazil for Fundamental Niche Modeling
... The ecological niche modeling may have several purposes, including analyzing the effect of global climate change on biodiversity; guiding selection of priority areas for conservation; making ...
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Forecasting Chikungunya spread in the Americas via data driven empirical approaches
... While exploring and assessing vector-borne disease transmission models that might inform us about CHIKV ecology, we noted that true, first-principles transmission models have been developed for a limited suite of ...
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Climatic suitability influences species specific abundance patterns of Australian flying foxes and risk of Hendra virus spillover
... Because niche models should only encompass the areas where spe- cies can move (areas colonisable by species = M [Movement]) [39,40], we assumed that the climatic regions of Australia (Bureau of Meteorol- ogy of ...
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Anaerobic animals from an ancient, anoxic ecological niche
... The newly reported tiny marine animals that complete their life cycle in the total absence of light and oxygen are members of the phylum Loricifera, a phylum discov- ered less than 30 years ago, and they are less than a ...
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MERS CoV geography and ecology in the Middle East: analyses of reported camel exposures and a preliminary risk map
... compare niche breadths estimated in the two niche models, we plotted 10,000 random points across the broader study area (of which 7759 fell on land and were included in analyses), and extracted grid values ...
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A common tendency for phylogenetic overdispersion in mammalian assemblages
... Because ecological similarity is often highest among closely-related species which share traits from a recent common ancestor (Harvey & Pagel 1991), competition must have a phylogenetic ...
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Ecological niche and potential distribution of Anopheles arabiensis in Africa in 2050
... for ecological niche modelling ...as Ecological Niche Factor Analysis (ENFA) [36] or MAXENT [33,37], because LOBAG-OC estimates the niche boundary ...
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Geographic distribution and ecological niche of plague in sub-Saharan Africa
... It is important to emphasize that our models are based on incidences of human plague derived from historical reports (1970–2007). We are aware that models based on human cases have limitations regarding disease occur- ...
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