Optimization of spatial scale, but not functional shape, affects the performance of habitat suitability models: a case study of tigers (Panthera tigris) in Thailand

E Ash, DW Macdonald, SA Cushman… - Landscape …, 2021 - Springer
… Species habitat suitability models rarely incorporate multiple spatial scales or functional
shapes of a species’ response to covariates. Optimizing models for these factors may produce …

The role of spatial scale and the perception of large‐scale species‐richness patterns

C Rahbek - Ecology letters, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… , a hump-shapedspatial grain and extent. If we are to attribute relative impact to various
factors influencing species richness and distribution and to decide at which point along a spatial

Sample shape, spatial scale and species counts: implications for reserve design

WE Kunin - Biological conservation, 1997 - Elsevier
… the effect on a range of spatial scales. It appears that the strength of the shape effect is
approximately constant across the three coarser spatial scales considered, although it fades to …

Different spatial scales of shape similarity representation in lateral and ventral LOC

DM Drucker, GK Aguirre - Cerebral Cortex, 2009 - academic.oup.com
shapes and the spatial scale of neural representation within subregions of the lateral occipital
complex (LOC) using a carryover functional … proportional to shape dissimilarity was seen. …

How spatial scale shapes the generation and management of multiple ecosystem services

R Lindborg, LJ Gordon, R Malinga, J Bengtsson… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… of spatial scale (extent) from the amount of interventions, we analyze how the shape of these
relationships varies with spatial scale for … By distinguishing between spatial extents of a …

Neuromorphometric characterization with shape functionals

MS Barbosa, L da Fontoura Costa… - Physical Review E, 2003 - APS
… information from neuronal cells based on the variation of shape functionals as the cell
geometry undergoes a dilation through a wide interval of spatial scales. The targeted shapes are …

Detecting phylogenetic signal and adaptation in papionin cranial shape by decomposing variation at different spatial scales

NDS Grunstra, SJ Bartsch, A Le Maître… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… variables was strongest for the outline shape and large-scale shape features. Studies of …
of shape variation into different spatial scales. [Adaptation; canalization; cranial shape; …

Shape representation and recognition through morphological curvature scale spaces

AC Jalba, MHF Wilkinson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… They developed a morphological curvature scale space for shape analysis, based on
sequences of morphological top-hat or bottom-hat filters with increasing size of the structuring …

[HTML][HTML] The shape of species abundance distributions across spatial scales

LH Antão, AE Magurran, M Dornelas - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… Here, we systematically assessed empirical SADs shape across a gradient in spatial scale
spanning several orders of magnitude and for different taxonomic groups spanning both …

Object shape before boundary shape: Scale-space medial axes

SM Pizer, CA Burbeck, JM Coggins, DS Fritsch… - Journal of Mathematical …, 1994 - Springer
… or visual measurements that have an associated spatial scale, and thus spatial tolerance [14],
and the spatial scale that is appropriate for boundary definition is unclear. Second, shape