Changes in habitat suitability for wintering dabbling ducks during dry conditions in the Central Valley of California ...
In arid and Mediterranean regions, landscape-scale wetland conservation requires understanding how wildlife responds to dynamic freshwater availability and human actions to enhance wetland habitat. Taking advantage of the Landsat satellite time series (2007–2016) and structured and community science...
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| Language: | English |
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Dryad
2022
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dz08kps10 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.dz08kps10 |
| Summary: | In arid and Mediterranean regions, landscape-scale wetland conservation requires understanding how wildlife responds to dynamic freshwater availability and human actions to enhance wetland habitat. Taking advantage of the Landsat satellite time series (2007–2016) and structured and community science bird survey data, we built species distribution models to describe how three duck species – Northern Pintail (Anas acuta), Green-winged Teal (A. crecca), and Northern Shoveler (A. clypeata) – respond to freshwater supply and food resources on different flooded land cover types in the Central Valley of California. Specifically, our models were designed to compare duck habitat suitability between the wettest to driest conditions in each month from September through April. Using abundance-weighted boosted regression trees, we created three sets of species occurrence models based on different covariates: (i) near real-time (hereafter “real-time”) covariates in which duck observations were matched to the surface water ... : Please see mansucript [currently in revision] with the same title for the full description of methods and results. ... |
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