Integrating Avian Habitat Distribution Models into a Conservation Planning Framework for the San Joaquin River, California, USA

Seavy, Nathaniel E.; Gardali, Thomas; Golet, Gregory H.; Jongsomjit, Dennis; Kelsey, Rodd; Matsumoto, Sandi; Paine, Seth; Stralberg, Diana

doi:10.3375/043.032.0411

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“…Many studies have used SDMs to identify critical areas for conservation, complement established reserve networks, consider data deficient species, or meet specific conservation targets (Seavy et al 2012; see also Table 1 for more details and examples). An important extension of this approach is to independently assess the value of different habitats for important species-specific actions (e.g.…”

Section: Identifying Priority Areas or Habitats For Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Avian SDMs: current state, challenges, and opportunities

Engler

Stiels

Schidelko

et al. 2017

Journal of Avian Biology

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Quantifying species distributions using species distribution models (SDMs) has emerged as a central method in modern biogeography. These empirical models link species occurrence data with spatial environmental information. Since their emergence in the 1990s, thousands of scientific papers have used SDMs to study organisms across the entire tree of life, with birds commanding considerable attention. Here, we review the current state of avian SDMs and point to challenges and future opportunities for specific applications, ranging from conservation biology, invasive species and predicting seabird distributions, to more general topics such as modeling avian diversity, niche evolution and seasonal distributions at a biogeographic scale. While SDMs have been criticized for being phenomenological in nature, and for their inability to explicitly account for a variety of processes affecting populations, we conclude that they remain a powerful tool to learn about past, current, and future species distributions -at least when their limitations and assumptions are recognized and addressed. We close our review by providing an outlook on prospects and synergies with other disciplines in which avian SDMs can play an important role.

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Section: Identifying Priority Areas or Habitats For Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%