Setting Reliability Bounds on Habitat Suitability Indices

Setting Reliability Bounds on Habitat Suitability Indices

We expressed quantitative and qualitative uncertainties in suitability index functions as triangular distributions and used the mechanics of fuzzy numbers to solve for the distribution of uncertainty around the habitat suitability indices derived from them. We applied this approach to a habitat mode...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ecological applications 2001-02, Vol.11 (1), p.70-78
Hauptverfasser: Burgman, Mark A., Breininger, David R., Duncan, Brean W., Ferson, Scott
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aphelocoma coerulescens
Demography
Ecological modeling
Florida Scrub-Jay
Forest canopy
Forest habitats
fuzzy numbers
Habitat conservation
Habitat loss
habitat suitability
Habitats
HSI
Scrub vegetation
uncertainty
USA, Florida
Wildlife habitats
Wildlife management
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Zusammenfassung:We expressed quantitative and qualitative uncertainties in suitability index functions as triangular distributions and used the mechanics of fuzzy numbers to solve for the distribution of uncertainty around the habitat suitability indices derived from them. We applied this approach to a habitat model for the Florida Scrub-Jay. The results demonstrate that priorities and decisions associated with management and assessment of ecological systems may be influenced by an explicit consideration of the reliability of the indices.
ISSN:1051-0761
1939-5582
DOI:10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[0070:SRBOHS]2.0.CO;2