Can putative indicator species predict habitat quality for American ginseng?

Can we predict habitat quality from space? A multi-indicator assessment based on an automated knowledge-driven system

There is an increasing need of effective monitoring systems for habitat quality assessment. Methods based on remote sensing (RS) features, such as vegetation indices, have been proposed as promising approaches, complementing methods based on categorical data to support decision making. Here, we evaluate the ability of Earth observation (EO) data, based on a new automated, knowledgedriven system...

Determining habitat quality for species that demonstrate dynamic habitat selection

Determining habitat quality for wildlife populations requires relating a species' habitat to its survival and reproduction. Within a season, species occurrence and density can be disconnected from measures of habitat quality when resources are highly seasonal, unpredictable over time, and patchy. Here we establish an explicit link among dynamic selection of changing resources, spatio-temporal s...

The heterospecific habitat copying hypothesis: can competitors indicate habitat quality?

Deseada Parejo, Etienne Danchin, and Jesús M. Avilés Laboratoire de Fonctionnement et Évolution des Systèmes Écologiques, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS-UMR 7625, Paris, France, Cátedra de Biologı́a y Etologı́a, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Extremadura, 10071 Cáceres, Spain, Laboratoire d’Écologie Évolutive Parasitaire, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS-UMR 7103, Paris, Fr...

Gradient-based habitat affinities predict species vulnerability to drought.

Ecological fingerprints of climate change are becoming increasingly evident at broad geographical scales as measured by species range shifts and changes in phenology. However, finer-scale species-level responses to environmental fluctuations may also provide an important bellwether of impending future community responses. Here we examined changes in abundance of butterfly species along a hydrol...

Habitat Quality Modeling for Bird Species at Furman University