Animals select habitat resources at multiple spatial scales. Thus, explicit attention to scale dependency in species–habitat relationships is critical to understand the habitat suitability patterns as perceived by organisms in complex landscapes. Identification of the scales at which particular environmental variables influence habitat selection may be as important as the selection of variables...

Habitat suitability modeling (HSM) is a tool for predicting the quality or suitability of habitat for a given species based on known affinities with habitat characteristics, such as depth and substrate type. This information is combined with maps of those same habitat characteristics to produce maps of expected distributions of species and life stages. One such technique is termed habitat suita...

In a natural resource management setting, monitoring is a crucial component of an informed process for making decisions, and monitoring design should be driven by the decision context and associated uncertainties. Monitoring itself can play 3 roles. First, it is important for state-dependent decision-making, as when managers need to know the system state before deciding on the appropriate cours...

Larocque, S.M., Hatry, C., and Enders, E.C. 2014. Development of habitat suitability indices and bioenergetics models for Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus). Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3097: vi + 57 p. Fish habitat models are often used as tools to evaluate habitat quality for aquatic organisms. Habitat suitability indices are a commonly used in habitat models, while others, such as bi...

this study was conducted in dez and karkheh regions in southwestern iran to model habitatsuitability of the persian fallow deer dama dama mesopotamicus and assessing trend of habitat changes since1989. a total of 22 confirmed presence records of the species were collected from 1988 to 2003. maxentapproach was used to develop habitat suitability model with regards to nine environmental variables...

Citation: Puckett BJ, Theuerkauf SJ, Eggleston DB, Guajardo R, Hardy C, Gao J and Luettich RA (2018) Integrating Larval Dispersal, Permitting, and Logistical Factors Within a Validated Habitat Suitability Index for Oyster Restoration. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:76. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00076 Integrating Larval Dispersal, Permitting, and Logistical Factors Within a Validated Habitat Suitability Index...

Multi-scale resource selection modeling is used to identify factors that limit species distributions across scales of space and time. This multi-scale nature of habitat suitability complicates the translation of inferences to single, spatial depictions of habitat required for conservation of species. We estimated resource selection functions (RSFs) across three scales for a threatened ungulate,...

Habitat suitability models are useful to understand species distribution and to guide management and conservation strategies. The grey wolf (Canis lupus) has been extirpated from most of its historic range in Pakistan primarily due to its impact on livestock and livelihoods. We used non-invasive survey data from camera traps and genetic sampling to develop a habitat suitability model for C. lup...

BACKGROUND Understanding constraints to the distribution of threatened species may help to ascertain whether there are other suitable sectors for reducing the risks associated with species that are recorded in only one protected locality, and to inform about the suitability of other areas for reintroduction or translocation programs. METHODS We studied the Gran Canaria blue chaffinch (Fringil...