Data from: Use of opportunistic sightings and expert knowledge to predict and compare Whooping Crane stopover habitat

• Main Authors: Hefley, Trevor J., Baasch, David M., Tyre, Andrew J., Blankenship, Erin E.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2016
• Subjects: whooping crane; detection; Expert elicitation; Grus americana; 2006; sampling bias; Platte River Recovery Implementation Program; 1988-2012; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t6859; http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.t6859

Predicting a species’ distribution can be helpful for evaluating management actions such as critical habitat designations under the U.S. Endangered Species Act or habitat acquisition and rehabilitation. Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) are one of the rarest birds in the world, and conservation and m...