Earth and field observations underpin metapopulation dynamics in complex landscapes: Near-term study on carabids.

ABSTRACT: Understanding risks to biodiversity requires predictions of the spatial distribution of species adapting to changing ecosystems and, to that end, Earth observations integrating field surveys prove essential as they provide key numbers for assessing landscape-wide biodiversity scenarios. Here, we develop, and apply to a relevant case study, a method suited to merge Earth/field observations with spatially explicit stochastic metapopulation models to study the near-term ecological dynamics of target species in complex terrains. Our framework incorporates the use of species distribution models for a reasoned estimation of the initial presence of the target species and accounts for imperfect and incomplete detection of the species presence in the study area. It also uses a metapopulation fitnes

SUBMITTER: Giezendanner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7293626 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature