Hierarchical, Multi-scale decomposition of species-environment relationships

By Samuel A. Cushman, K. McGarigal. Landscape Ecology, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

The spatial distribution of birds and carabid beetles in pine plantation forests: the role of landscape composition and structure (2007, unknown): “For bird communities, most studies have pointed out a greater effect of landscape composition than landscape structure or configuration, including patch shape, patch isolation and habitat fragmentation (Trzcinski et al., 1999; Drapeau et al., 2000; Cushman & McGarigal, 2002).”
Comparing annual vertebrate road kills over two time periods, 9 years apart: a case study in Mediterranean farmland (2011, background): “Like other ecological phenomena, road kill incidence rates are mediated by numerous factors that act at a multitude of organisational levels and along a wide range of spatial and temporal scales (Cushman and McGarigal 2002).”
Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on amphibians: A review and prospectus (2006, background): “Thus, researchers must adopt multi-scale approaches that allow for assessment of the interaction of environmental patterns across scales (Wiens, 1989; Cushman and McGarigal, 2003 ).”
Locating eutrophication effects across British vegetation between 1990 and 1998 (2003, background): “Although the analytical tools by and large exist to tackle these kinds of problems (e.g. Cushman & McGarigal, 2002), the primary obstacle is more often the lack of spatially and temporally coregistered measurements of both drivers and responses.”
Species, Data, and Conservation Planning (2004, unknown): “Pressey and Higgins et al. refer to several studies as providing “more encouraging” evidence for the surrogacy of land types (Wessels et al. 1999; Pharo & Beattie 2001; Cushman & McGarigal 2002; Mac Nally et al. 2002; Oliver et al. 2004; Su et al. 2004).”
HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS OF FOREST BIRD SPECIES–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS IN THE OREGON COAST RANGE (2004, methodology): “A powerful approach for separating the effects of hierarchically structured variable sets uses canonical ordination techniques to partition the variation in multivariate data sets (Borcard et al. 1992, Cushman and McGarigal 2002).”
Cross-scale Correlations and the Design and Analysis of Avian Habitat Selection Studies (2006, methodology): “Cross-scale correlations have the potential to confound the interpretation of results at all scales (Cushman and McGarigal 2002, Lichstein et al. 2002, Lawler and Edwards 2006) and may lead to spurious conclusions about habitat selection at any scale.”
Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time (2009, unknown): “Alternatively, hierarchical regression models (“mixed models”) allow nested structures of data (Beever et al. 2006), and hierarchical canonical variance partitioning can be used to provide a structured decomposition of variance across scales (Cushman & McGarigal 2002).”
The influence of landscape, patch, and within-patch factors on species presence and abundance: a review of focal patch studies (2010, methodology): “Another approach would be for studies to consistently employ a variance or hierarchical partitioning approach in multi-level studies that would enable a comparison of the ‘‘amount of variation explained’’ across all three levels as a measure of relative influence (e.g., Cushman and McGarigal 2002; ”
Response of plant pathogens and herbivores to a warming experiment (2004, background): “Most ecological studies using variation partitioning have analyzed the responses of multispecies communities using canonical ordination models (Borcard et al. 1992, Anderson and Gribble 1998, Cushman and McGarigal 2002).”
Are spiders reacting to local or landscape scale effects in Hungarian pastures (2008, background): “Landscape structure is generally defined in terms of ‘composition’ and ‘configuration’ (Dunning et al., 1992; Cushman and McGarigal, 2002 ).”