Conservation planners tend to ignore improved accuracy of modelled species distributions to focus on multiple threats and ecological processes

AIT Tulloch, P Sutcliffe, I Naujokaitis-Lewis… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Limited conservation resources mean that management decisions are often made on the
basis of scarce biological information. Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly …

Modelling agroforestry's contributions to people—a review of available models

P Kraft, EE Rezaei, L Breuer, F Ewert… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change, increasing environmental pollution, continuous loss of biodiversity, and a
growing human population with increasing food demand, threaten the functioning of agro …

Machine learning methods reveal the temporal pattern of dengue incidence using meteorological factors in metropolitan Manila, Philippines

TM Carvajal, KM Viacrusis, LFT Hernandez… - BMC infectious …, 2018 - Springer
Background Several studies have applied ecological factors such as meteorological
variables to develop models and accurately predict the temporal pattern of dengue …

Identifying the key biophysical drivers, connectivity outcomes, and metapopulation consequences of larval dispersal in the sea

EA Treml, JR Ford, KP Black, SE Swearer - Movement ecology, 2015 - Springer
Background Population connectivity, which is essential for the persistence of benthic marine
metapopulations, depends on how life history traits and the environment interact to influence …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of land use factors associated with dengue cases in Malaysia using Boosted Regression Trees

YL Cheong, PJ Leitão, T Lakes - Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, 2014 - Elsevier
The transmission of dengue disease is influenced by complex interactions among vector,
host and virus. Land use such as water bodies or certain agricultural practices have been …

Evaluating the metapopulation consequences of ecological traps

R Hale, EA Treml, SE Swearer - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecological traps occur when environmental changes cause maladaptive habitat selection.
Despite their relevance to metapopulations, ecological traps have been studied …

An efficient protocol for the global sensitivity analysis of stochastic ecological models

TAA Prowse, CJA Bradshaw, S Delean, P Cassey… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Stochastic simulation models requiring many input parameters are widely used to inform the
management of ecological systems. The interpretation of complex models is aided by global …

52,000 years of woolly rhinoceros population dynamics reveal extinction mechanisms

DA Fordham, SC Brown, E Canteri… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The extinction of the woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) at the onset of the Holocene
remains an enigma, with conflicting evidence regarding its cause and spatiotemporal …

Using multivariate statistics to explore trade‐offs among spatial planning scenarios

LR Harris, ME Watts, R Nel… - Journal of applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Scenario planning can be useful to guide decision‐making under uncertainty. While
systematic conservation planning can create protected‐area networks for multiple and …

Sensitivity analysis of tree phenology models reveals increasing sensitivity of their predictions to winter chilling temperature and photoperiod with warming climate

J Gauzere, C Lucas, O Ronce, H Davi, I Chuine - Ecological Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
The phenology of plants is a major driver of agro-ecosystem processes and biosphere
feedbacks to the climate system. Phenology models are classically used in ecology and …