Modeling current and potential distributions of mammal species using presence-only data: A case study on British deer.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Decisions on wildlife conservation, management, and epidemiological risk are best based on robust evidence. The continual improvement of species distributions, such that they can be relied upon in decision-making, is important. Here we seek to refine aspects of a generic modelling approach and improve the utility of species distribution maps.

Location

Great Britain (GB).

Methods

We applied a modeling framework based on hierarchical Bayesian species distribution models exploiting opportunistic occurrence records from citizen science datasets to predict both current and potential distributions for each of the six deer species known to be present in GB. Using the resulting maps, we performed a simple analysis of the overlap between species to illustrate possible cont

SUBMITTER: Croft S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686353 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature