A5049158795- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Forest Management and Policy
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2019-2023
Species loss is occurring globally at unprecedented rates, and effective conservation planning requires an understanding of landscape characteristics that determine biodiversity patterns. Habitat heterogeneity important determinant species diversity, but difficult to measure across large areas using field-based methods are costly logistically challenging. Satellite image texture analysis offers a cost-effective alternative for quantifying habitat broad spatial scales. We tested the ability...
Abstract Aim Predicting biodiversity responses to global changes requires good models of species' distributions. Both environmental conditions and human activities determine population density patterns. However, quantifying the relationship between wildlife densities their underlying across large geographical scales has remained challenging. Our goal was explain abundances mammal species based on response several remotely sensed indices including Dynamic Habitat Indices (DHIs) novel Winter...
Abstract Human activities alter ecosystems everywhere, causing rapid biodiversity loss and biotic homogenization. These losses necessitate coordinated conservation actions guided by species distribution spatial data that cover large areas yet have fine‐enough resolution to be management‐relevant (i.e., ≤5 km). However, most products are too coarse for management or only available small areas. Furthermore, many maps generated assessment do not explicitly quantify the inherent tradeoff between...
Abstract Identifying the factors that determine habitat suitability and hence patterns of wildlife abundances over broad spatial scales is important for conservation. Ecosystem productivity a key aspect suitability, especially large mammals. Our goals were to a) explain moose ( Alces alces ) abundance across Russia based on remotely sensed measures vegetation using Dynamic Habitat Indices (DHIs), b) examine if differed before after collapse Soviet Union. We evaluated utility DHIs multiple...