Joshua H. Schmidt, William W. Deacy, Letty J. Hughes, Dylan T. Schertz
{"title":"Non-invasive mark–resight surveys for brown bears: Incorporating spatial information to improve landscape-scale monitoring of density and distribution","authors":"Joshua H. Schmidt, William W. Deacy, Letty J. Hughes, Dylan T. Schertz","doi":"10.1002/2688-8319.12288","DOIUrl":"10.1002/2688-8319.12288","url":null,"abstract":"Effective wildlife monitoring and management are reliant on unbiased estimators of population parameters. Most standard survey approaches ignore spatial pattern in the data although spatial relationships can be leveraged to produce more efficient designs for future surveys, thereby reducing project cost. Landscape‐scale surveys for brown bears are notoriously expensive and difficult to complete, leading to the development of a non‐invasive mark–resight aerial survey approach as a practical alternative to more commonly employed approaches for estimating brown bear density across large areas.\u0000\u0000Here we extend that model to accommodate spatial covariate information and explicitly model residual spatial autocorrelation. Using brown bear survey data from northwestern Alaska, USA from 2015 to 2021, we demonstrate how our extension can be useful in exploring ecological factors related to spatial variation in bear density and detection probability.\u0000\u0000We found that detection probability was higher in more rugged terrain, and occurrence probability was higher at mid‐elevations where denning habitat was more prevalent and in areas with more salmon streams. The descriptive model of residual autocorrelation confirmed that additional unmeasured factors were associated with bear distribution. While these findings were not unexpected, they are very useful when considering future survey effort.\u0000\u0000Using this information, we explored a hypothetical redesign of the 2021 brown bear survey that removed 50% of the survey subunits with elevation values below the mean, where bears were least likely to occur. We demonstrated that the resulting estimates were unbiased, suggesting that adopting the spatial approach to analysis could reduce overall project costs by ~20%–30% going forward.\u0000\u0000Overall, our work indicates that directly accounting for spatial pattern within the non‐invasive mark–resight framework has substantive advantages over the original non‐spatial approach and may be useful in increasing the amount of information available for brown bear populations.","PeriodicalId":100388,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Solutions and Evidence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2688-8319.12288","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136160392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samantha Burke, Patrice Pottier, Erin L. Macartney, Szymon M. Drobniak, Malgorzata Lagisz, Tracy Ainsworth, Shinichi Nakagawa
{"title":"Mapping literature reviews on coral health: A review map, critical appraisal and bibliometric analysis","authors":"Samantha Burke, Patrice Pottier, Erin L. Macartney, Szymon M. Drobniak, Malgorzata Lagisz, Tracy Ainsworth, Shinichi Nakagawa","doi":"10.1002/2688-8319.12287","DOIUrl":"10.1002/2688-8319.12287","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":100388,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Solutions and Evidence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2688-8319.12287","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136054905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher Warneke, Lars A. Brudvig, Makani Gregg, Sierra McDaniel, Stephanie Yelenik
{"title":"Elevation, canopy cover and grass cover structure patterns of seedling establishment in a subtropical post-fire restoration","authors":"Christopher Warneke, Lars A. Brudvig, Makani Gregg, Sierra McDaniel, Stephanie Yelenik","doi":"10.1002/2688-8319.12280","DOIUrl":"10.1002/2688-8319.12280","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":100388,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Solutions and Evidence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2688-8319.12280","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136054901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Markus A. K. Sydenham, Zander S. Venter, Katrine Eldegard, Marianne S. Torvanger, Megan S. Nowell, Silke Hansen, John Ingar Øverland, Yoko L. Dupont, Claus Rasmussen, Astrid B. Skrindo, Graciela M. Rusch
{"title":"The contributions of flower strips to wild bee conservation in agricultural landscapes can be predicted using pollinator habitat suitability models","authors":"Markus A. K. Sydenham, Zander S. Venter, Katrine Eldegard, Marianne S. Torvanger, Megan S. Nowell, Silke Hansen, John Ingar Øverland, Yoko L. Dupont, Claus Rasmussen, Astrid B. Skrindo, Graciela M. Rusch","doi":"10.1002/2688-8319.12283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12283","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":100388,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Solutions and Evidence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2688-8319.12283","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50122498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the efficacy of using GPS satellite transmitters to assess movement of bigheaded carp in a riverine system","authors":"Andrew Mathis, Kevin Irons, James Lamer","doi":"10.1002/2688-8319.12284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12284","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":100388,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Solutions and Evidence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2688-8319.12284","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50122500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel V. J. Robinson, Timothy Schwinghamer, Hector Cárcamo, Paul Galpern
{"title":"Precision agricultural data and ecosystem services: Can we put the pieces together?","authors":"Samuel V. J. Robinson, Timothy Schwinghamer, Hector Cárcamo, Paul Galpern","doi":"10.1002/2688-8319.12271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12271","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":100388,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Solutions and Evidence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2688-8319.12271","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50122499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatiotemporal organization of cryptic North American Culex species along an urbanization gradient","authors":"Arielle Arsenault-Benoit, Megan L. Fritz","doi":"10.1002/2688-8319.12282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12282","url":null,"abstract":"<p>\u0000 \u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":100388,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Solutions and Evidence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2688-8319.12282","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50120016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}