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Worku EA, Evangelista PH, Atickem A, Bekele A, Bro‐Jørgensen J, Stenseth NC. Modeling habitat suitability for the lesser-known populations of endangered mountain nyala ( Tragelaphus buxtoni) in the Arsi and Ahmar Mountains, Ethiopia. Ecol Evol 2024; 14:e11235. [PMID: 38623519 PMCID: PMC11017409 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.11235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 02/10/2024] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024] Open
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Habitat suitability models have become a valuable tool for wildlife conservation and management, and are frequently used to better understand the range and habitat requirements of rare and endangered species. In this study, we employed two habitat suitability modeling techniques, namely Boosted Regression Tree (BRT) and Maximum Entropy (Maxent) models, to identify potential suitable habitats for the endangered mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni) and environmental factors affecting its distribution in the Arsi and Ahmar Mountains of Ethiopia. Presence points, used to develop our habitat suitability models, were recorded from fecal pellet counts (n = 130) encountered along 196 randomly established transects in 2015 and 2016. Predictor variables used in our models included major landcover types, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), greenness and wetness tasseled cap vegetation indices, elevation, and slope. Area Under the Curve model evaluations for BRT and Maxent were 0.96 and 0.95, respectively, demonstrating high performance. Both models were then ensembled into a single binary output highlighting an area of agreement. Our results suggest that 1864 km2 (9.1%) of the 20,567 km2 study area is suitable habitat for the mountain nyala with land cover types, elevation, NDVI, and slope of the terrain being the most important variables for both models. Our results highlight the extent to which habitat loss and fragmentation have disconnected mountain nyala subpopulations. Our models demonstrate the importance of further protecting suitable habitats for mountain nyala to ensure the species' conservation.
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- Ejigu Alemayehu Worku
- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of BiosciencesUniversity of OsloOsloNorway
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- Natural Resource Ecology LaboratoryColorado State UniversityFort CollinsColoradoUSA
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- Department of Zoological SciencesAddis Ababa UniversityAddis AbabaEthiopia
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- Department of Zoological SciencesAddis Ababa UniversityAddis AbabaEthiopia
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- Mammalian Behaviour and Evolution Group, Department of Evolution, Ecology and BehaviourUniversity of LiverpoolNestonUK
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of BiosciencesUniversity of OsloOsloNorway
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Li X, Naimi B, Gong P, Araújo MB. Data error propagation in stacked bioclimatic envelope models. Integr Zool 2024; 19:262-276. [PMID: 37259699 DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Stacking is the process of overlaying inferred species potential distributions for multiple species based on outputs of bioclimatic envelope models (BEMs). The approach can be used to investigate patterns and processes of species richness. If data limitations on individual species distributions are inevitable, but how do they affect inferences of patterns and processes of species richness? We investigate the influence of different data sources on estimated species richness gradients in China. We fitted BEMs using species distributions data for 334 bird species obtained from (1) global range maps, (2) regional checklists, (3) museum records and surveys, and (4) citizen science data using presence-only (Mahalanobis distance), presence-background (MAXENT), and presence-absence (GAM and BRT) BEMs. Individual species predictions were stacked to generate species richness gradients. Here, we show that different data sources and BEMs can generate spatially varying gradients of species richness. The environmental predictors that best explained species distributions also differed between data sources. Models using citizen-based data had the highest accuracy, whereas those using range data had the lowest accuracy. Potential richness patterns estimated by GAM and BRT models were robust to data uncertainty. When multiple data sets exist for the same region and taxa, we advise that explicit treatments of uncertainty, such as sensitivity analyses of the input data, should be conducted during the process of modeling.
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- Xueyan Li
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System, Guangdong Open Laboratory of Geospatial Information Technology and Application, Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangdong Academy of Science, Guangzhou, China
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- 'Rui Nabeiro' Biodiversity Chair, CHANGE-MED Institute, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
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- Department of Geography and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- 'Rui Nabeiro' Biodiversity Chair, CHANGE-MED Institute, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
- Department of Biogeography and Global Change, National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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Bridges AEH, Barnes DKA, Bell JB, Ross RE, Voges L, Howell KL. Filling the data gaps: Transferring models from data-rich to data-poor deep-sea areas to support spatial management. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 345:118325. [PMID: 37390730 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/03/2023] [Indexed: 07/02/2023]
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Spatial management of the deep sea is challenging due to limited available data on the distribution of species and habitats to support decision making. In the well-studied North Atlantic, predictive models of species distribution and habitat suitability have been used to fill data gaps and support sustainable management. In the South Atlantic and other poorly studied regions, this is not possible due to a massive lack of data. In this study, we investigated whether models constructed in data-rich areas can be used to inform data-poor regions (with otherwise similar environmental conditions). We used a novel model transfer approach to identify to what extent a habitat suitability model for Desmophyllum pertusum reef, built in a data-rich basin (North Atlantic), could be transferred usefully to a data-poor basin (South Atlantic). The transferred model was built using the Maximum Entropy algorithm and constructed with 227 presence and 3064 pseudo-absence points, and 200 m resolution environmental grids. Performance in the transferred region was validated using an independent dataset of D. pertusum presences and absences, with assessments made using both threshold-dependent and -independent metrics. We found that a model for D. pertusum reef fitted to North Atlantic data transferred reasonably well to the South Atlantic basin, with an area under the curve of 0.70. Suitable habitat for D. pertusum reef was predicted on 20 of the assessed 27 features including seamounts. Nationally managed Marine Protected Areas provide significant protection for D. pertusum reef habitat in the region, affording full protection from bottom trawling to 14 of the 20 suitable features. In areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), we found four seamounts that provided suitable habitat for D. pertusum reef to be at least partially protected from bottom trawling, whilst two did not fall within fisheries closures. There are factors to consider when developing models for transfer including data resolution and predictor type. Nevertheless, the promising results of this application demonstrate that model transfer approaches stand to provide significant contributions to spatial planning processes through provision of new, best available data. This is particularly true for ABNJ and areas that have previously undergone little scientific exploration such as the global south.
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- Amelia E H Bridges
- School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK; British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Cambridge, UK; Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, UK.
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), Pakefield Road, Lowestoft, UK
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- Benthic Communities Research Group, Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Bergen, Norway
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- South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation, Swakopmund, Namibia
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- School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK
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Guo K, Yuan S, Wang H, Zhong J, Wu Y, Chen W, Hu C, Chang Q. Species distribution models for predicting the habitat suitability of Chinese fire-bellied newt Cynops orientalis under climate change. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:10147-10154. [PMID: 34367565 PMCID: PMC8328465 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Revised: 06/03/2021] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Climate change influences species geographical distribution and diversity pattern. The Chinese fire-bellied newt (Cynops orientalis) is an endemic species distributed in East-central China, which has been classified as near-threatened species recently due to habitat destruction and degradation and illegal trade in the domestic and international pet markets. So far, little is known about the spatial distribution of the species. Based on bioclimatic data of the current and future climate projections, we modeled the change in suitable habitat for C. orientalis by ten algorithms, evaluated the importance of environmental factors in shaping their distribution, and identified distribution shifts under climate change scenarios. In this study, 46 records of C. orientalis from East China and 8 bioclimatic variables were used. Among the ten modeling algorithms, four (GAM, GBM, Maxent, and RF) were selected according to their predictive abilities. The current habitat suitability showed that C. orientalis had a relatively wide but fragmented distribution, and it encompassed 41,862 km2. The models suggested that precipitation of warmest quarter (bio18) and mean temperature of wettest quarter (bio6) had the highest contribution to the model. This study revealed that C. orientalis is sensitive to climate change, which will lead to a large range shift. The projected spatial and temporal pattern of range shifts for C. orientalis should provide a useful reference for implementing long-term conservation and management strategies for amphibians in East China.
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- Kun Guo
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and BiotechnologyCollege of Life SciencesNanjing Normal UniversityNanjingChina
- College of Life and Environmental ScienceWenzhou UniversityWenzhouChina
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and BiotechnologyCollege of Life SciencesNanjing Normal UniversityNanjingChina
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and BiotechnologyCollege of Life SciencesNanjing Normal UniversityNanjingChina
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and BiotechnologyCollege of Life SciencesNanjing Normal UniversityNanjingChina
- College of Life and Environmental ScienceWenzhou UniversityWenzhouChina
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- Nanjing Institute of Environmental SciencesMinistry of Environmental ProtectionNanjingChina
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- College of Environment and EcologyJiangsu Open University (The City Vocational College of Jiangsu)NanjingChina
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and BiotechnologyCollege of Life SciencesNanjing Normal UniversityNanjingChina
- Analytical and Testing CenterNanjing Normal UniversityNanjingChina
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and BiotechnologyCollege of Life SciencesNanjing Normal UniversityNanjingChina
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Supervised Machine Learning for Estimation of Total Suspended Solids in Urban Watersheds. WATER 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/w13020147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Machine Learning (ML) algorithms provide an alternative for the prediction of pollutant concentration. We compared eight ML algorithms (Linear Regression (LR), uniform weighting k-Nearest Neighbor (UW-kNN), variable weighting k-Nearest Neighbor (VW-kNN), Support Vector Regression (SVR), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Regression Tree (RT), Random Forest (RF), and Adaptive Boosting (AdB)) to evaluate the feasibility of ML approaches for estimation of Total Suspended Solids (TSS) using the national stormwater quality database. Six factors were used as features to train the algorithms with TSS concentration as the target parameter: Drainage area, land use, percent of imperviousness, rainfall depth, runoff volume, and antecedent dry days. Comparisons among the ML methods demonstrated a higher degree of variability in model performance, with the coefficient of determination (R2) and Nash–Sutcliffe (NSE) values ranging from 0.15 to 0.77. The Root Mean Square (RMSE) values ranged from 110 mg/L to 220 mg/L. The best fit was obtained using the AdB and RF models, with R2 values of 0.77 and 0.74 in the training step and 0.67 and 0.64 in the prediction step. The NSE values were 0.76 and 0.72 in the training step and 0.67 and 0.62 in the prediction step. The predictions from AdB were sensitive to all six factors. However, the sensitivity level was variable.
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Mendes P, Velazco SJE, Andrade AFAD, De Marco P. Dealing with overprediction in species distribution models: How adding distance constraints can improve model accuracy. Ecol Modell 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sultana J, Tibby J, Recknagel F, Maxwell S, Goonan P. Comparison of two commonly used methods for identifying water quality thresholds in freshwater ecosystems using field and synthetic data. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 724:137999. [PMID: 32408424 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2020] [Revised: 03/09/2020] [Accepted: 03/15/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Defining ecological thresholds has become increasingly relevant for water resource management. Despite the fact that there has been a rapid expansion in methods to evaluate ecological threshold responses to environmental stressors, evaluation of the relative benefits of various methods has received less attention. This study compares the performance of Gradient Forest (GF) and Threshold Indicator Taxa Analysis (TITAN) for identifying water quality thresholds in both field and synthetic data. Analysis of 14 years of macroinvertebrates data from the Mediterranean catchments of the Torrens and Onkaparinga Rivers, South-Australia, identified electrical conductivity (EC) and total phosphorus (TP) as the most important water quality variables affecting macroinvertebrates. Water quality thresholds for macroinvertebrates identified by both methods largely corresponded at low EC (GF: 400-900 μS cm-1 vs. TITAN: 407-951 μScm-1), total phosphorus (TP) (GF: 0.02-0.18 mg L-1 vs. TITAN: 0.02-0.04 mg L-1) and total nitrogen (TN) (GF: 0.2 mg L-1 vs. TITAN: 0.28-0.67 mg L-1) concentrations. However, multiple GF-derived thresholds, particularly at high stressor concentrations, were representative of low data distribution, and thus need to be considered with caution. In another case study of South Australian diatom data, there were marked differences in GF and TITAN identified thresholds for EC (GF: 5000 μScm-1 vs. TITAN 1004-2440 μS cm-1) and TP (GF: 250-500 μg L-1 vs. TITAN: 11-329 μg L-1). These differences were due to the fact that while TITAN parsed species responses into negative and positive taxa, GF overestimated thresholds by aggregating the response of taxa that increase and decrease along environmental gradients. Given these findings, we also evaluated the methods' performance using different distributions of synthetic data i.e. with both skewed and uniform distribution of samples and species responses. Both methods identified similar change-points in the case of a uniform environmental gradient, except when species optima were simulated at centre of the gradient. Here GF detected the change-points but TITAN failed to do so. GF also outperformed TITAN when four simulated species change-points were present. Thus, the distribution of species responses and optima and the evenness of the environment gradient can affect the models' performance. This study has shown that both methods are robust in identifying change in species response but threshold identification differs depending both on the analysis used and the nature of ecological data. We recommend the careful application of GF and TITAN, noting these differences in performance, will improve their application for water resource management.
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- Jawairia Sultana
- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
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- Department of Geography, Environment and Population, The University of Adelaide, Australia; Sprigg Geobiology Centre, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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- Department of Environment and Water, Waymouth Street, Adelaide 5000, Australia
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- South Australia Environment Protection Authority, Adelaide, Australia
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Lin YP, Mukhtar H, Huang KT, Petway JR, Lin CM, Chou CF, Liao SW. Real-Time Identification of Irrigation Water Pollution Sources and Pathways with a Wireless Sensor Network and Blockchain Framework. SENSORS 2020; 20:s20133634. [PMID: 32605303 PMCID: PMC7374519 DOI: 10.3390/s20133634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 06/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Real-time identification of irrigation water pollution sources and pathways (PSP) is crucial to ensure both environmental and food safety. This study uses an integrated framework based on the Internet of Things (IoT) and the blockchain technology that incorporates a directed acyclic graph (DAG)-configured wireless sensor network (WSN), and GIS tools for real-time water pollution source tracing. Water quality sensors were installed at monitoring stations in irrigation channel systems within the study area. Irrigation water quality data were delivered to databases via the WSN and IoT technologies. Blockchain and GIS tools were used to trace pollution at mapped irrigation units and to spatially identify upstream polluted units at irrigation intakes. A Water Quality Analysis Simulation Program (WASP) model was then used to simulate water quality by using backward propagation and identify potential pollution sources. We applied a “backward pollution source tracing” (BPST) process to successfully and rapidly identify electrical conductivity (EC) and copper (Cu2+) polluted sources and pathways in upstream irrigation water. With the BPST process, the WASP model effectively simulated EC and Cu2+ concentration data to identify likely EC and Cu2+ pollution sources. The study framework is the first application of blockchain technology for effective real-time water quality monitoring and rapid multiple PSPs identification. The pollution event data associated with the PSP are immutable.
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- Yu-Pin Lin
- Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; (H.M.); (K.-T.H.); (J.R.P.); (C.-M.L.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.:+886-2-33663468
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- Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; (H.M.); (K.-T.H.); (J.R.P.); (C.-M.L.)
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- Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; (H.M.); (K.-T.H.); (J.R.P.); (C.-M.L.)
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- Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; (H.M.); (K.-T.H.); (J.R.P.); (C.-M.L.)
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- Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; (H.M.); (K.-T.H.); (J.R.P.); (C.-M.L.)
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- Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; (C.-F.C.); (S.-W.L.)
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- Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; (C.-F.C.); (S.-W.L.)
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Akpoti K, Kabo-Bah AT, Dossou-Yovo ER, Groen TA, Zwart SJ. Mapping suitability for rice production in inland valley landscapes in Benin and Togo using environmental niche modeling. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 709:136165. [PMID: 31905543 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/14/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Inland valleys (IVs) in Africa are important landscapes for rice cultivation and are targeted by national governments to attain self-sufficiency. Yet, there is limited information on the spatial distribution of IVs suitability at the national scale. In the present study, we developed an ensemble model approach to characterize the IVs suitability for rainfed lowland rice using 4 machine learning algorithms based on environmental niche modeling (ENM) with presence-only data and background sample, namely Boosted Regression Tree (BRT), Generalized Linear Model (GLM), Maximum Entropy (MAXNT) and Random Forest (RF). We used a set of predictors that were grouped under climatic variables, agricultural water productivity and soil water content, soil chemical properties, soil physical properties, vegetation cover, and socio-economic variables. The Area Under the Curves (AUC) evaluation metrics for both training and testing were respectively 0.999 and 0.873 for BRT, 0.866 and 0.816 for GLM, 0.948 and 0.861 for MAXENT and 0.911 and 0.878 for RF. Results showed that proximity of inland valleys to roads and urban centers, elevation, soil water holding capacity, bulk density, vegetation index, gross biomass water productivity, precipitation of the wettest quarter, isothermality, annual precipitation, and total phosphorus among others were major predictors of IVs suitability for rainfed lowland rice. Suitable IVs areas were estimated at 155,000-225,000 Ha in Togo and 351,000-406,000 Ha in Benin. We estimated that 53.8% of the suitable IVs area is needed in Togo to attain self-sufficiency in rice while 60.1% of the suitable IVs area is needed in Benin to attain self-sufficiency in rice. These results demonstrated the effectiveness of an ensemble environmental niche modeling approach that combines the strengths of several models.
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- Komlavi Akpoti
- Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire; Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani, Ghana.
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani, Ghana
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- Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Accra, Ghana
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Hallman TA, Robinson WD. Deciphering ecology from statistical artefacts: Competing influence of sample size, prevalence and habitat specialization on species distribution models and how small evaluation datasets can inflate metrics of performance. DIVERS DISTRIB 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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- Tyler A. Hallman
- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon
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Xiong Q, Halmy MWA, Dakhil MA, Pandey B, Zhang F, Zhang L, Pan K, Li T, Sun X, Wu X, Xiao Y. Concealed truth: Modeling reveals unique Quaternary distribution dynamics and refugia of four related endemic keystone Abies taxa on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:14295-14316. [PMID: 31938520 PMCID: PMC6953664 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Revised: 09/25/2019] [Accepted: 11/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Understanding the factors driving the Quaternary distribution of Abies in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is crucial for biodiversity conservation and for predicting future anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems. Here, we collected Quaternary paleo-, palynological, and phylogeographical records from across the TP and applied ecological niche models (ENMs) to obtain a profound understanding of the different adaptation strategies and distributional changes in Abies trees in this unique area. We identified environmental variables affecting the different historical biogeographies of four related endemic Abies taxa and rebuilt their distribution patterns over different time periods, starting from the late Pleistocene. In addition, modeling and phylogeographic results were used to predict suitable refugia for Abies forrestii, A. forrestii var. georgei, A. fargesii var. faxoniana, and A. recurvata. We supplemented the ENMs by investigating pollen records and diversity patterns of cpDNA for them. The overall reconstructed distributions of these Abies taxa were dramatically different when the late Pleistocene was compared with the present. All Abies taxa gradually receded from the south toward the north in the last glacial maximum (LGM). The outcomes showed two well-differentiated distributions: A. fargesii var. faxoniana and A. recurvata occurred throughout the Longmen refuge, a temporary refuge for the LGM, while the other two Abies taxa were distributed throughout the Heqing refuge. Both the seasonality of precipitation and the mean temperature of the driest quarter played decisive roles in driving the distribution of A. fargesii var. faxoniana and A. recurvata, respectively; the annual temperature range was also a key variable that explained the distribution patterns of the other two Abies taxa. Different adaptation strategies of trees may thus explain the differing patterns of distribution over time at the TP revealed here for endemic Abies taxa.
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- Qinli Xiong
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional EcologyResearch Center for Eco‐Environmental SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- Department of Environmental SciencesFaculty of ScienceAlexandria UniversityAlexandriaEgypt
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- Botany and Microbiology DepartmentFaculty of ScienceHelwan UniversityCairoEgypt
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
- University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceChengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of SciencesChengduChina
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional EcologyResearch Center for Eco‐Environmental SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesBeijingChina
- College of Biology and Environmental SciencesJishou UniversityJishouChina
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Corrêa Nogueira TDA, Ayala WE, Dayrell JS, de Fraga R, Kaefer IL. Scale-dependent estimates of niche overlap and environmental effects on two sister species of Neotropical snakes. STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/01650521.2019.1616957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologia das Águas, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarém, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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Norberg A, Abrego N, Blanchet FG, Adler FR, Anderson BJ, Anttila J, Araújo MB, Dallas T, Dunson D, Elith J, Foster SD, Fox R, Franklin J, Godsoe W, Guisan A, O'Hara B, Hill NA, Holt RD, Hui FKC, Husby M, Kålås JA, Lehikoinen A, Luoto M, Mod HK, Newell G, Renner I, Roslin T, Soininen J, Thuiller W, Vanhatalo J, Warton D, White M, Zimmermann NE, Gravel D, Ovaskainen O. A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels. ECOL MONOGR 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 169] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Anna Norberg
- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme University of Helsinki P.O. Box 65 Helsinki FI‐00014 Finland
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- Department of Biology Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim N‐7491 Norway
- Department of Agricultural Sciences University of Helsinki P.O. Box 27 Helsinki FI‐00014 Finland
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- Département de Biologie Université de Sherbrooke 2500 boulevard de l'Université Sherbrooke Quebec J1K 2R1 Canada
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- Department of Mathematics University of Utah 155 South 1400 East Salt Lake City Utah 84112 USA
- School of Biological Sciences University of Utah 257 South 1400 East Salt Lake City Utah 84112 USA
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- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme University of Helsinki P.O. Box 65 Helsinki FI‐00014 Finland
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- Departmento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Calle José Gutiérrez Abascal 2 Madrid 28006 Spain
- Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair Universidade de Évora Largo dos Colegiais Evora 7000 Portugal
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate Natural History Museum of Denmark University of Copenhagen Copenhagen 2100 Denmark
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- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme University of Helsinki P.O. Box 65 Helsinki FI‐00014 Finland
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- Department of Statistical Science Duke University P.O. Box 90251 Durham North Carolina 27708 USA
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- School of BioSciences University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria 3010 Australia
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Hobart Tasmania Australia
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- Butterfly Conservation Manor Yard, East Lulworth Wareham BH20 5QP United Kingdom
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- Department of Botany and Plant Sciences University of California Riverside California 92521 USA
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- Bio‐Protection Research Centre Lincoln University P.O. Box 85084 Lincoln 7647 New Zealand
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) University of Lausanne, Biophore Lausanne CH‐1015 Switzerland
- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST) University of Lausanne, Geopolis Lausanne CH‐1015 Switzerland
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim N‐7491 Norway
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies University of Tasmania Private Bag 49 Hobart Tasmania 7001 Australia
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- Department of Biology The University of Florida Gainesville Florida 32611 USA
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- Mathematical Sciences Institute The Australian National University Acton Australian Capital Territory 2601 Australia
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- Nord University Røstad Levanger 7600 Norway
- BirdLife Norway Sandgata 30B Trondheim 7012 Norway
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- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research P.O. Box 5685, Torgarden Trondheim NO‐7485 Norway
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- The Helsinki Lab of Ornithology Finnish Museum of Natural History University of Helsinki P.O. Box 17 Helsinki FI‐00014 Finland
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- Department of Geosciences and Geography University of Helsinki P.O. Box 64 Helsinki 00014 Finland
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- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST) University of Lausanne, Geopolis Lausanne CH‐1015 Switzerland
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- Biodiversity Division Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research 123 Brown Street Heidelberg Victoria 3084 Australia
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- School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences The University of Newcastle University Drive Callaghan New South Wales 2308 Australia
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences University of Helsinki P.O. Box 27 Helsinki FI‐00014 Finland
- Department of Ecology Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 7044 Uppsala 750 07 Sweden
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- Department of Geosciences and Geography University of Helsinki P.O. Box 64 Helsinki 00014 Finland
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- CNRS LECA Laboratoire d’Écologie Alpine University Grenoble Alpes Grenoble F‐38000 France
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- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme University of Helsinki P.O. Box 65 Helsinki FI‐00014 Finland
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- School of Mathematics and Statistics Evolution & Ecology Research Centre University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia
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- Biodiversity Division Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research 123 Brown Street Heidelberg Victoria 3084 Australia
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- Dynamic Macroecology Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zuercherstrasse 111 Birmensdorf CH‐8903 Switzerland
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- Département de Biologie Université de Sherbrooke 2500 boulevard de l'Université Sherbrooke Quebec J1K 2R1 Canada
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- Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme University of Helsinki P.O. Box 65 Helsinki FI‐00014 Finland
- Department of Biology Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim N‐7491 Norway
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Velasco JA, González-Salazar C. Akaike information criterion should not be a “test” of geographical prediction accuracy in ecological niche modelling. ECOL INFORM 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2019.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Araújo MB, Anderson RP, Márcia Barbosa A, Beale CM, Dormann CF, Early R, Garcia RA, Guisan A, Maiorano L, Naimi B, O’Hara RB, Zimmermann NE, Rahbek C. Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2019; 5:eaat4858. [PMID: 30746437 PMCID: PMC6357756 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat4858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 284] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2018] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Demand for models in biodiversity assessments is rising, but which models are adequate for the task? We propose a set of best-practice standards and detailed guidelines enabling scoring of studies based on species distribution models for use in biodiversity assessments. We reviewed and scored 400 modeling studies over the past 20 years using the proposed standards and guidelines. We detected low model adequacy overall, but with a marked tendency of improvement over time in model building and, to a lesser degree, in biological data and model evaluation. We argue that implementation of agreed-upon standards for models in biodiversity assessments would promote transparency and repeatability, eventually leading to higher quality of the models and the inferences used in assessments. We encourage broad community participation toward the expansion and ongoing development of the proposed standards and guidelines.
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- Miguel B. Araújo
- National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 28006 Madrid, Spain
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair, University of Évora, 7000 Évora, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA
- Program in Biology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
- Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA
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- Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair, University of Évora, 7000 Évora, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, University of York, York YO19 5PR, UK
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- Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair, University of Évora, 7000 Évora, Portugal
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland 7602, South Africa
- Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation (SEEC), University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701 Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
- Landscape Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics, NTNU, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
- Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
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Thapa A, Wu R, Hu Y, Nie Y, Singh PB, Khatiwada JR, Yan L, Gu X, Wei F. Predicting the potential distribution of the endangered red panda across its entire range using MaxEnt modeling. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:10542-10554. [PMID: 30464826 PMCID: PMC6238126 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2017] [Revised: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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An upsurge in anthropogenic impacts has hastened the decline of the red panda (Ailurus fulgens). The red panda is a global conservation icon, but holistic conservation management has been hampered by research being restricted to certain locations and population clusters. Building a comprehensive potential habitat map for the red panda is imperative to advance the conservation effort and ensure coordinated management across international boundaries. Here, we use occurrence records of both subspecies of red pandas from across their entire range to build a habitat model using the maximum entropy algorithm (MaxEnt 3.3.3k) and the least correlated bioclimatic variables. We found that the subspecies have separate climatic spaces dominated by temperature-associated variables in the eastern geographic distribution limit and precipitation-associated variables in the western distribution limit. Annual precipitation (BIO12) and maximum temperature in the warmest months (BIO5) were major predictors of habitat suitability for A. f. fulgens and A. f. styani, respectively. Our model predicted 134,975 km2 of red panda habitat based on 10 percentile thresholds in China (62% of total predicted habitat), Nepal (15%), Myanmar (9%), Bhutan (9%), and India (5%). Existing protected areas (PAs) encompass 28% of red panda habitat, meaning the PA network is currently insufficient and alternative conservation mechanisms are needed to protect the habitat. Bhutan's PAs provide good coverage for the red panda habitat. Furthermore, large areas of habitat were predicted in cross-broader areas, and transboundary conservation will be necessary.
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- Arjun Thapa
- Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation BiologyInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesChaoyang, BeijingChina
- International CollegeUniversity of Chinese Academy of ScienceBeijingChina
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- Institute of International Rivers and Eco‐SecurityYunnan UniversityKunmingYunnanChina
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- Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation BiologyInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesChaoyang, BeijingChina
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- Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation BiologyInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesChaoyang, BeijingChina
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- Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation BiologyInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesChaoyang, BeijingChina
- International CollegeUniversity of Chinese Academy of ScienceBeijingChina
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- International CollegeUniversity of Chinese Academy of ScienceBeijingChina
- Chengdu Institute of BiologyChinese Academy of ScienceChengduSichuanChina
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- Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation BiologyInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesChaoyang, BeijingChina
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- Sichuan Forestry DepartmentWildlife Conservation DivisionChengduSichuanChina
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- Key Lab of Animal Ecology and Conservation BiologyInstitute of ZoologyChinese Academy of SciencesChaoyang, BeijingChina
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Yue S, Bonebrake TC, Gibson L. Informing snake roadkill mitigation strategies in Taiwan using citizen science. J Wildl Manage 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Sam Yue
- School of Biological Sciences; University of Hong Kong; Pokfulam Hong Kong China
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- School of Biological Sciences; University of Hong Kong; Pokfulam Hong Kong China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, and School of Biological Sciences; University of Hong Kong; Pokfulam Hong Kong China
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Yates KL, Bouchet PJ, Caley MJ, Mengersen K, Randin CF, Parnell S, Fielding AH, Bamford AJ, Ban S, Barbosa AM, Dormann CF, Elith J, Embling CB, Ervin GN, Fisher R, Gould S, Graf RF, Gregr EJ, Halpin PN, Heikkinen RK, Heinänen S, Jones AR, Krishnakumar PK, Lauria V, Lozano-Montes H, Mannocci L, Mellin C, Mesgaran MB, Moreno-Amat E, Mormede S, Novaczek E, Oppel S, Ortuño Crespo G, Peterson AT, Rapacciuolo G, Roberts JJ, Ross RE, Scales KL, Schoeman D, Snelgrove P, Sundblad G, Thuiller W, Torres LG, Verbruggen H, Wang L, Wenger S, Whittingham MJ, Zharikov Y, Zurell D, Sequeira AM. Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models. Trends Ecol Evol 2018; 33:790-802. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2018.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 277] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Revised: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 08/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Derville S, Torres LG, Iovan C, Garrigue C. Finding the right fit: Comparative cetacean distribution models using multiple data sources and statistical approaches. DIVERS DISTRIB 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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- Solene Derville
- UMR ENTROPIE (IRD, Université de La Réunion, CNRS); Nouméa Cedex New Caledonia
- Collège Doctoral; Sorbonne Université; Paris France
- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife; Marine Mammal Institute; Oregon State University, HMSC; Newport OR USA
- Operation Cétacés; Nouméa New Caledonia
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife; Marine Mammal Institute; Oregon State University, HMSC; Newport OR USA
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- UMR ENTROPIE (IRD, Université de La Réunion, CNRS); Nouméa Cedex New Caledonia
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- UMR ENTROPIE (IRD, Université de La Réunion, CNRS); Nouméa Cedex New Caledonia
- Operation Cétacés; Nouméa New Caledonia
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Sequeira AMM, Bouchet PJ, Yates KL, Mengersen K, Caley MJ. Transferring biodiversity models for conservation: Opportunities and challenges. Methods Ecol Evol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ana M. M. Sequeira
- IOMRC and Australian Institute of Marine Science The UWA Oceans Institute and School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia Crawley Western Australia Australia
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- Marine Futures Lab School of Biological Sciences The University of Western Australia Crawley Western Australia Australia
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- School of Environment and Life Sciences University of Salford Manchester UK
- School of Mathematical Sciences Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- School of Mathematical Sciences Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Queensland Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Queensland Australia
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- School of Mathematical Sciences Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Queensland Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Queensland Australia
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Fordham DA, Bertelsmeier C, Brook BW, Early R, Neto D, Brown SC, Ollier S, Araújo MB. How complex should models be? Comparing correlative and mechanistic range dynamics models. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:1357-1370. [PMID: 29152817 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2016] [Accepted: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Criticism has been levelled at climate-change-induced forecasts of species range shifts that do not account explicitly for complex population dynamics. The relative importance of such dynamics under climate change is, however, undetermined because direct tests comparing the performance of demographic models vs. simpler ecological niche models are still lacking owing to difficulties in evaluating forecasts using real-world data. We provide the first comparison of the skill of coupled ecological-niche-population models and ecological niche models in predicting documented shifts in the ranges of 20 British breeding bird species across a 40-year period. Forecasts from models calibrated with data centred on 1970 were evaluated using data centred on 2010. We found that more complex coupled ecological-niche-population models (that account for dispersal and metapopulation dynamics) tend to have higher predictive accuracy in forecasting species range shifts than structurally simpler models that only account for variation in climate. However, these better forecasts are achieved only if ecological responses to climate change are simulated without static snapshots of historic land use, taken at a single point in time. In contrast, including both static land use and dynamic climate variables in simpler ecological niche models improve forecasts of observed range shifts. Despite being less skilful at predicting range changes at the grid-cell level, ecological niche models do as well, or better, than more complex models at predicting the magnitude of relative change in range size. Therefore, ecological niche models can provide a reasonable first approximation of the magnitude of species' potential range shifts, especially when more detailed data are lacking on dispersal dynamics, demographic processes underpinning population performance, and change in land cover.
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- Damien A Fordham
- The Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- The Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Department of Ecology & Evolution, Univ. Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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- InBio/CIBIO, University of Évora, Largo dos Colegiais, Évora, Portugal
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- The Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- InBio/CIBIO, University of Évora, Largo dos Colegiais, Évora, Portugal
- National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Uncertainty of future projections of species distributions in mountainous regions. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0189496. [PMID: 29320501 PMCID: PMC5761832 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2017] [Accepted: 11/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Multiple factors introduce uncertainty into projections of species distributions under climate change. The uncertainty introduced by the choice of baseline climate information used to calibrate a species distribution model and to downscale global climate model (GCM) simulations to a finer spatial resolution is a particular concern for mountainous regions, as the spatial resolution of climate observing networks is often insufficient to detect the steep climatic gradients in these areas. Using the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) modeling framework together with occurrence data on 21 understory bamboo species distributed across the mountainous geographic range of the Giant Panda, we examined the differences in projected species distributions obtained from two contrasting sources of baseline climate information, one derived from spatial interpolation of coarse-scale station observations and the other derived from fine-spatial resolution satellite measurements. For each bamboo species, the MaxEnt model was calibrated separately for the two datasets and applied to 17 GCM simulations downscaled using the delta method. Greater differences in the projected spatial distributions of the bamboo species were observed for the models calibrated using the different baseline datasets than between the different downscaled GCM simulations for the same calibration. In terms of the projected future climatically-suitable area by species, quantification using a multi-factor analysis of variance suggested that the sum of the variance explained by the baseline climate dataset used for model calibration and the interaction between the baseline climate data and the GCM simulation via downscaling accounted for, on average, 40% of the total variation among the future projections. Our analyses illustrate that the combined use of gridded datasets developed from station observations and satellite measurements can help estimate the uncertainty introduced by the choice of baseline climate information to the projected changes in species distribution.
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Kaky E, Gilbert F. Predicting the distributions of Egypt's medicinal plants and their potential shifts under future climate change. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0187714. [PMID: 29136659 PMCID: PMC5685616 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 10/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Climate change is one of the most difficult of challenges to conserving biodiversity, especially for countries with few data on the distributions of their taxa. Species distribution modelling is a modern approach to the assessment of the potential effects of climate change on biodiversity, with the great advantage of being robust to small amounts of data. Taking advantage of a recently validated dataset, we use the medicinal plants of Egypt to identify hotspots of diversity now and in the future by predicting the effect of climate change on the pattern of species richness using species distribution modelling. Then we assess how Egypt's current Protected Area network is likely to perform in protecting plants under climate change. The patterns of species richness show that in most cases the A2a 'business as usual' scenario was more harmful than the B2a 'moderate mitigation' scenario. Predicted species richness inside Protected Areas was higher than outside under all scenarios, indicating that Egypt's PAs are well placed to help conserve medicinal plants.
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- Emad Kaky
- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Kalar Technical Institute, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Appling the One-Class Classification Method of Maxent to Detect an Invasive Plant Spartina alterniflora with Time-Series Analysis. REMOTE SENSING 2017. [DOI: 10.3390/rs9111120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Mateus M. Milking spherical cows—Yet another facet of model complexity. Ecol Modell 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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On the dangers of model complexity without ecological justification in species distribution modeling. Ecol Modell 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Grimm V, Berger U. Structural realism, emergence, and predictions in next-generation ecological modelling: Synthesis from a special issue. Ecol Modell 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Torossian J, Kordas R, Helmuth B. Cross-Scale Approaches to Forecasting Biogeographic Responses to Climate Change. ADV ECOL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2016.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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