Eastern Ecological Science CenterxLegacy Data ReleasesPatuxent Wildlife Research CenterPredicted Avian Species Occupancy, Area of Sustainable Forest Habitat, and Area of Occupied Habitat within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley Bird Conservation Region Pred
Values for predicted probabilities of avian species occupancy were determined using colonization-extinction models (MacKenzie and others, 2003) as implemented in R (Version 3.4.4; https://www.r-project.org/) via the colext function of the Unmarked package (Version 0.12-0; Fiske and Chandler 2011). Performance of a null model (without covariates) and 153 additional models that assessed the effects of geographic coordinates and habitat context covariates were evaluated using Akaike information criteria (AIC; Burnham and Anderson, 2002). When more than one model had substantial support, their respective model weights were used to spatially predict occupancy relative to covariate influence. Predictive model covariates and weights are provided in Appendix 4 (Twedt and Mini, 2020).
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Title | Eastern Ecological Science CenterxLegacy Data ReleasesPatuxent Wildlife Research CenterPredicted Avian Species Occupancy, Area of Sustainable Forest Habitat, and Area of Occupied Habitat within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley Bird Conservation Region Pred |
| DOI | 10.5066/P9YMSM8I |
| Authors | Daniel J Twedt, Anne E. Mini |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Leetown Research Laboratory |
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