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| Título: | Transferability of environmental favourability models in geographic space: The case of the Iberian desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) in Portugal and Spain |
| Investigador(es) da Universidade de Évora/Autores: | Barbosa, A. Márcia
Real, Raimundo
Vargas, J. Mario |
| Editora: | Elsevier |
| Nome da Revista: | Ecological Modelling |
| Síntese Descritiva: | Transferring distribution models between different geographical areas may be problematic, as the performance of models outside their original scope is hard to predict. A modelling procedure is needed that Transferring distribution models between different geographical areas may be problematic, as the performance of models outside their original scope is hard to predict. A modelling procedure is needed that gets the gist of the environmental descriptors of a distribution area, without either overfitting to the training data or overestimating the species’ distribution potential.We tested the transferability power of the favourability function, a generalized linear model, on the distribution of the Iberian desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) in the Iberian territories of Portugal and Spain.We also tested the effects of two of the main potential constraints on model transferability: the analysed ranges of the predictor variables, and the completeness of the species distribution data. We modelled 10 km×10km presence/absence data from Portugal and Spain separately, extrapolated each model to the other country, and compared predictions with observations. The Spanish model, despite arguably containing more false absences, showed good predictive ability in Portugal. The Portuguese model, whose predictors ranged between only a subset of the values observed in Spain, overestimated desman distribution when transferred.We discuss possible reasons for this differential model behaviour, and highlight the importance of this kind of models for prediction and conservation applications. |
| ISSN: | 0304-3800 |
| Número da Revista: | 220 |
| Página(s): | 747-754 |
| Volume: | 220 (5) |
| Palavras-Chave: | Distribution modelling
Favourability function
Generalized linear models (GLM)
Iberian Peninsula
Model extrapolation |
| Data de Publicação ou Distribuição: | 10-Mar-2009 |
| URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/10174/1905 |
| Aparece nas Colecções: | CI-NABEIRO - Publicações - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais Com Arbitragem Científica
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