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Estimating indices of range shifts in birds using dynamic models when detection is imperfect

Overview of attention for article published in Global Change Biology, May 2016
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Title
Estimating indices of range shifts in birds using dynamic models when detection is imperfect
Published in
Global Change Biology, May 2016
DOI 10.1111/gcb.13283
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Matthew J Clement, James E Hines, James D Nichols, Keith L Pardieck, David J Ziolkowski

Abstract

There is intense interest in basic and applied ecology about the effect of global change on current and future species distributions. Projections based on widely used static modeling methods implicitly assume that species are in equilibrium with the environment and that detection during surveys is perfect. We used multi-season correlated detection occupancy models, which avoid these assumptions, to relate climate data to distributional shifts of Louisiana Waterthrush in the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. We summarized these shifts with indices of range size and position and compared them to the same indices obtained using more basic modeling approaches. Detection rates during point counts in BBS surveys were low, and models that ignored imperfect detection severely underestimated the proportion of area occupied and slightly overestimated mean latitude. Static models indicated Louisiana Waterthrush distribution was most closely associated with moderate temperatures, while dynamic occupancy models indicated that initial occupancy was associated with diurnal temperature ranges and colonization of sites was associated with moderate precipitation. Overall, the proportion of area occupied and mean latitude changed little during the 1997 to 2013 study period. Near-term forecasts of species distribution generated by dynamic models were more similar to subsequently observed distributions than forecasts from static-models. Occupancy models incorporating a finite mixture model on detection - a new extension to correlated detection occupancy models - were better supported and may reduce bias associated with detection heterogeneity. We argue that replacing phenomenological static models with more mechanistic dynamic models can improve projections of future species distributions. In turn, better projections can improve biodiversity forecasts, management decisions, and understanding of global change biology This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Japan 2 1%
Sweden 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Latvia 1 <1%
Puerto Rico 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 123 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 27%
Researcher 34 25%
Student > Master 18 13%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 4%
Other 17 12%
Unknown 17 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 56 41%
Environmental Science 44 32%
Social Sciences 3 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 1%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 1%
Other 8 6%
Unknown 23 17%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 August 2017.
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#2,899,058
of 26,420,475 outputs
Outputs from Global Change Biology
#3,546
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Outputs of similar age
#44,751
of 328,412 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Global Change Biology
#61
of 126 outputs
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