Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat
Aim: The increasing availability of animal tracking datasets collected across many sites provides new opportunities to move beyond local assessments to enable detailed and consistent habitat mapping at biogeographical scales. However, integrating wildlife datasets across large areas and study sites...
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ftdepositonce:oai:depositonce.tu-berlin.de:11303/21483 2024-06-23T07:57:31+00:00 Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat Oeser, Julian Heurich, Marco Kramer‐Schadt, Stephanie Mattisson, Jenny Krofel, Miha Krojerová‐Prokešová, Jarmila Zimmermann, Fridolin Anders, Ole Andrén, Henrik Bagrade, Guna Belotti, Elisa Breitenmoser‐Würsten, Christine Bufka, Luděk Černe, Rok Drouet‐Hoguet, Nolwenn Duľa, Martin Fuxjäger, Christian Gomerčić, Tomislav Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz Kont, Raido Koubek, Petr Kowalczyk, Rafał Kusak, Josip Kubala, Jakub Kutal, Miroslav Linnell, John D. C. Molinari‐Jobin, Anja Männil, Peep Middelhoff, Tomma Lilli Odden, John Okarma, Henryk Oliveira, Teresa Pagon, Nives Persson, Jens Remm, Jaanus Schmidt, Krzysztof Signer, Sven Tám, Branislav Vogt, Kristina Kuemmerle, Tobias 2024-05-22T14:36:24Z application/pdf https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/21483 https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-20283 en eng 1366-9516 https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/21483 https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-20283 1472-4642 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::590 Tiere (Zoologie)::599 Mammalia (Säugetiere) animal tracking Eurasian lynx habitat suitability large carnivore large‐area mapping Lynx lynx Article publishedVersion 2024 ftdepositonce https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-20283 2024-05-27T23:51:56Z Aim: The increasing availability of animal tracking datasets collected across many sites provides new opportunities to move beyond local assessments to enable detailed and consistent habitat mapping at biogeographical scales. However, integrating wildlife datasets across large areas and study sites is challenging, as species' varying responses to different environmental contexts must be reconciled. Here, we compare approaches for large-area habitat mapping and assess available habitat for a recolonizing large carnivore, the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx). Location: Europe. Methods: We use a continental-scale animal tracking database (450 individuals from 14 study sites) to systematically assess modelling approaches, comparing (1) global strategies that pool all data for training versus building local, site-specific models and combining them, (2) different approaches for incorporating regional variation in habitat selection and (3) different modelling algorithms, testing nonlinear mixed effects models as well as machine-learning algorithms. Results: Testing models on training sites and simulating model transfers, global and local modelling strategies achieved overall similar predictive performance. Model performance was the highest using flexible machine-learning algorithms and when incorporating variation in habitat selection as a function of environmental variation. Our best-performing model used a weighted combination of local, site-specific habitat models. Our habitat maps identified large areas of suitable, but currently unoccupied lynx habitat, with many of the most suitable unoccupied areas located in regions that could foster connectivity between currently isolated populations. Main Conclusions: We demonstrate that global and local modelling strategies can achieve robust habitat models at the continental scale and that considering regional variation in habitat selection improves broad-scale habitat mapping. More generally, we highlight the promise of large wildlife tracking databases for large-area habitat ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Lynx Lynx lynx lynx TU Berlin: Deposit Once |
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500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::590 Tiere (Zoologie)::599 Mammalia (Säugetiere) animal tracking Eurasian lynx habitat suitability large carnivore large‐area mapping Lynx lynx Oeser, Julian Heurich, Marco Kramer‐Schadt, Stephanie Mattisson, Jenny Krofel, Miha Krojerová‐Prokešová, Jarmila Zimmermann, Fridolin Anders, Ole Andrén, Henrik Bagrade, Guna Belotti, Elisa Breitenmoser‐Würsten, Christine Bufka, Luděk Černe, Rok Drouet‐Hoguet, Nolwenn Duľa, Martin Fuxjäger, Christian Gomerčić, Tomislav Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz Kont, Raido Koubek, Petr Kowalczyk, Rafał Kusak, Josip Kubala, Jakub Kutal, Miroslav Linnell, John D. C. Molinari‐Jobin, Anja Männil, Peep Middelhoff, Tomma Lilli Odden, John Okarma, Henryk Oliveira, Teresa Pagon, Nives Persson, Jens Remm, Jaanus Schmidt, Krzysztof Signer, Sven Tám, Branislav Vogt, Kristina Kuemmerle, Tobias Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat |
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Aim: The increasing availability of animal tracking datasets collected across many sites provides new opportunities to move beyond local assessments to enable detailed and consistent habitat mapping at biogeographical scales. However, integrating wildlife datasets across large areas and study sites is challenging, as species' varying responses to different environmental contexts must be reconciled. Here, we compare approaches for large-area habitat mapping and assess available habitat for a recolonizing large carnivore, the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx). Location: Europe. Methods: We use a continental-scale animal tracking database (450 individuals from 14 study sites) to systematically assess modelling approaches, comparing (1) global strategies that pool all data for training versus building local, site-specific models and combining them, (2) different approaches for incorporating regional variation in habitat selection and (3) different modelling algorithms, testing nonlinear mixed effects models as well as machine-learning algorithms. Results: Testing models on training sites and simulating model transfers, global and local modelling strategies achieved overall similar predictive performance. Model performance was the highest using flexible machine-learning algorithms and when incorporating variation in habitat selection as a function of environmental variation. Our best-performing model used a weighted combination of local, site-specific habitat models. Our habitat maps identified large areas of suitable, but currently unoccupied lynx habitat, with many of the most suitable unoccupied areas located in regions that could foster connectivity between currently isolated populations. Main Conclusions: We demonstrate that global and local modelling strategies can achieve robust habitat models at the continental scale and that considering regional variation in habitat selection improves broad-scale habitat mapping. More generally, we highlight the promise of large wildlife tracking databases for large-area habitat ... |
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Oeser, Julian Heurich, Marco Kramer‐Schadt, Stephanie Mattisson, Jenny Krofel, Miha Krojerová‐Prokešová, Jarmila Zimmermann, Fridolin Anders, Ole Andrén, Henrik Bagrade, Guna Belotti, Elisa Breitenmoser‐Würsten, Christine Bufka, Luděk Černe, Rok Drouet‐Hoguet, Nolwenn Duľa, Martin Fuxjäger, Christian Gomerčić, Tomislav Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz Kont, Raido Koubek, Petr Kowalczyk, Rafał Kusak, Josip Kubala, Jakub Kutal, Miroslav Linnell, John D. C. Molinari‐Jobin, Anja Männil, Peep Middelhoff, Tomma Lilli Odden, John Okarma, Henryk Oliveira, Teresa Pagon, Nives Persson, Jens Remm, Jaanus Schmidt, Krzysztof Signer, Sven Tám, Branislav Vogt, Kristina Kuemmerle, Tobias |
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Oeser, Julian Heurich, Marco Kramer‐Schadt, Stephanie Mattisson, Jenny Krofel, Miha Krojerová‐Prokešová, Jarmila Zimmermann, Fridolin Anders, Ole Andrén, Henrik Bagrade, Guna Belotti, Elisa Breitenmoser‐Würsten, Christine Bufka, Luděk Černe, Rok Drouet‐Hoguet, Nolwenn Duľa, Martin Fuxjäger, Christian Gomerčić, Tomislav Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz Kont, Raido Koubek, Petr Kowalczyk, Rafał Kusak, Josip Kubala, Jakub Kutal, Miroslav Linnell, John D. C. Molinari‐Jobin, Anja Männil, Peep Middelhoff, Tomma Lilli Odden, John Okarma, Henryk Oliveira, Teresa Pagon, Nives Persson, Jens Remm, Jaanus Schmidt, Krzysztof Signer, Sven Tám, Branislav Vogt, Kristina Kuemmerle, Tobias |
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Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat |
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Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat |
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Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat |
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Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat |
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Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat |
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integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping eurasian lynx habitat |
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