Predictive multi‐scale occupancy models at range‐wide extents: Effects of habitat and human disturbance on distributions of wetland birds

Predicting distributions is fundamental to ecology, yet hindered by spatially restricted sampling, scale‐dependent relationships and detection error associated with field surveys. Predictive species distribution models (SDMs) are nonetheless vital for conservation of many species. We developed a framework for building predictive SDMs with multi‐scale data and used it to develop range‐wide breeding‐season SDMs for 14 marsh bird species of concern.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity

• Publication date

  2019-10-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ddi.12995
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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