A dynamic multi-scale occupancy model to estimate temporal dynamics and hierarchical habitat use for nomadic species.

ABSTRACT: Distribution models are increasingly being used to understand how landscape and climatic changes are affecting the processes driving spatial and temporal distributions of plants and animals. However, many modeling efforts ignore the dynamic processes that drive distributional patterns at different scales, which may result in misleading inference about the factors influencing species distributions. Current occupancy models allow estimation of occupancy at different scales and, separately, estimation of immigration and emigration. However, joint estimation of local extinction, colonization, and occupancy within a multi-scale model is currently unpublished. We extended multi-scale models to account for the dynamic processes governing species distributions, while concurrently modeling local-sc

SUBMITTER: Green AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6362800 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature