Mapping spatial pattern in biodiversity for regional conservation planning: where to from here?

By Simon Ferrier. Systematic Biology, 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Satellite tracking large numbers of individuals to infer population level dispersal and core areas for the protection of an endangered species (2013, background): “Hence, as countries introduce measures to improve protection along their coastlines (Bradshaw et al., 2010), it is important to ensure that governments and environmental agencies select optimal sites for regulation (Ferrier, 2002).”
Predicting species distributions from museum and herbarium records using multiresponse models fitted with multivariate adaptive regression splines (2007, methodology): “, 2004), and finer-grained practices of land management and acquisition of land for reserves (Ferrier, 2002).”
Error and uncertainty in habitat models (2006, methodology): “These can be used to model either the collective properties of the biota (Ferrier 2002) or to make predictions for individual species from a community model in which information for a wider set of species is used to construct a context in which individual species distributions are then described.”
Mapping hotspots of multiple landscape functions: a case study on farmland afforestation in Scotland (2007, methodology): “In recent years there has been a strong growth in the number of publications on the use of analytical (GIS) methods for the spatial targeting of conservation efforts (e.g. Church et al. 1996; Lathrop and Bognar 1998; Ferrier 2002; Wilson et al. 2006).”
Synthesis of pattern and process in biodiversity conservation assessment: a flexible whole‐landscape modelling framework (2010, background): “This means that, wherever possible, integration of predictions across surrogate entities should consider patterns in the relationship between these entities and the much larger set of unmeasured elements of biodiversity they are intended to represent (Ferrier, 2002).”
Using generalized dissimilarity modelling to analyse and predict patterns of beta diversity in regional biodiversity assessment (2007, methodology): “In this paper, we examine a particular variant of the distance approach — generalized dissimilarity modelling 1 (GDM; Ferrier, 2002; Ferrier et al ., 2002) — which has been applied increasingly to biodiversity assessment activities over recent years.”
Strategies to protect biological diversity and the evolutionary processes that sustain it. (2002, methodology): “…cient algorithms that maximize representation of diversity, that is, which ef ciently sample the spatial pattern of diversity, based on mapped vegetation communities, species distributions, or environmental surrogates thereof (Margules and Pressey, 2000; Ferrier, 2002; Funk and Richardson, 2002).”
Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis (2012, methodology): “Ferrier (2002) extended this distance-based approach and proposed generalized dissimilarity modeling (GDM), a nonlinear method to model ecological dissimilarities as a function of geographical and environmental distances.”
Habitat Suitability Models and the Shortfall in Conservation Planning for African Vertebrates (2005, background): “By the same token, geographic ranges are a simpler and coarser-resolution form of a deductive model, in which only some obvious ecological information is subjectively used to interpolate the distribution of a species inside its geographic extent (Ferrier 2002).”
Conservation of Northern European plant diversity: the correspondence with soil pH (2004, background): “Often, however, highquality biodiversity data are lacking and surrogate data have to be used, for example abiotic environmental data (Ferrier, 2002).”
Forecasting the future of biodiversity: a test of single- and multi-species models for ants in North America (2011, background): “An alternative but relatively unexplored approach to forecast potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity involves modeling the emergent patterns of biodiversity directly (Ferrier 2002) rather than combining individual models for many species.”
Plant species diversity in alien black locust stands: a paired comparison with native stands across a north-Mediterranean range expansion. (2012, background): “By providing information on the plant composition dissimilarity among the black locust and native pioneer stands within the hilly and piedmont landscape of the Eastern Alps, the a and b-diversity comparisons are important novel contributions to future conservation planning, as such efforts are usual”
Using the Species-Area Relationship to Set Baseline Targets for Conservation (2004, methodology): “These issues can be addressed by mapping at finer scales and with improved mapping techniques (Ferrier 2002; P. Desmet, A. Lombard, and A. Cowling, unpublished manuscript).”
Can niche-based distribution models outperform spatial interpolation? (2007, background): “The ability to model species distributions has proved to be vital to species conservation, land management and protected area design (Scott & Csuti, 1997; Ferrier, 2002) because complete censuses of threatened”