Holiday Publications!
Update January 2010: This paper is now online with doi 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.12.020.
I received some good news this morning as I prepared to head back to the UK for the holidays. The paper I started writing back in January examining the white-tailed deer distribution in our managed forest landscape (the analysis for which inspired posts on Bayesian and ensemble modelling) has been accepted for publication and is 'In Press'! I've copied the abstract below.
Another piece of publications news I received a while back is that the paper I co-authored with Raul Romero-Calcerrada and others modelling socioeconomic data to understand patterns of human-caused wildfire ignition risk has now officially been published in Ecological Modelling.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Effects of local and regional landscape characteristics on wildlife distribution across managed forests (In Press) Millington, Walters, Matonis, and Liu Forest Ecology and Management
Abstract
Understanding impacts of local and regional landscape characteristics on spatial distributions of wildlife species is vital for achieving ecological and economic sustainability of forested landscapes. This understanding is important because wildlife species such as white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) have the potential to affect forest dynamics differently across space. Here, we quantify the effects of local and regional landscape characteristics on the spatial distribution of white-tailed deer, produce maps of estimated deer density using these quantified relationships, provide measures of uncertainty for these maps to aid interpretation, and show how this information can be used to guide co-management of deer and forests. Specifically, we use ordinary least squares and Bayesian regression methods to model the spatial distribution of white-tailed deer in northern hardwood stands during the winter in the managed hardwood-conifer forests of the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. Our results show that deer density is higher nearer lowland conifer stands and in areas where northern hardwood trees have small mean diameter-at-breast-height. Other factors related with deer density include mean northern hardwood basal area (negative relationship), proportion of lowland conifer forest cover (positive relationship), and mean daily snow depth (negative relationship).The modeling methods we present provide a means to identify locations in forest landscapes where wildlife and forest managers may most effectively co-ordinate their actions.
Keywords: wildlife distribution; landscape characteristics; managed forest; ungulate herbivory; northern hardwood; lowland conifer; white-tailed deer
I received some good news this morning as I prepared to head back to the UK for the holidays. The paper I started writing back in January examining the white-tailed deer distribution in our managed forest landscape (the analysis for which inspired posts on Bayesian and ensemble modelling) has been accepted for publication and is 'In Press'! I've copied the abstract below.
Another piece of publications news I received a while back is that the paper I co-authored with Raul Romero-Calcerrada and others modelling socioeconomic data to understand patterns of human-caused wildfire ignition risk has now officially been published in Ecological Modelling.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Effects of local and regional landscape characteristics on wildlife distribution across managed forests (In Press) Millington, Walters, Matonis, and Liu Forest Ecology and Management
Abstract
Understanding impacts of local and regional landscape characteristics on spatial distributions of wildlife species is vital for achieving ecological and economic sustainability of forested landscapes. This understanding is important because wildlife species such as white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) have the potential to affect forest dynamics differently across space. Here, we quantify the effects of local and regional landscape characteristics on the spatial distribution of white-tailed deer, produce maps of estimated deer density using these quantified relationships, provide measures of uncertainty for these maps to aid interpretation, and show how this information can be used to guide co-management of deer and forests. Specifically, we use ordinary least squares and Bayesian regression methods to model the spatial distribution of white-tailed deer in northern hardwood stands during the winter in the managed hardwood-conifer forests of the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. Our results show that deer density is higher nearer lowland conifer stands and in areas where northern hardwood trees have small mean diameter-at-breast-height. Other factors related with deer density include mean northern hardwood basal area (negative relationship), proportion of lowland conifer forest cover (positive relationship), and mean daily snow depth (negative relationship).The modeling methods we present provide a means to identify locations in forest landscapes where wildlife and forest managers may most effectively co-ordinate their actions.
Keywords: wildlife distribution; landscape characteristics; managed forest; ungulate herbivory; northern hardwood; lowland conifer; white-tailed deer
Labels: Forests, MichiganUP, Modelling, Publications, Wildfire
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posted by James at Saturday, December 19, 2009
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