Modelling Habitat Suitability for the White-throated Treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaeus); a GIS Approach

The habitats of plants change through time, and the plants change with them. Plants, in fact, are able themselves to change various aspects of the environment they inhabit. Succession occurs because altered environmental conditions favour certain species, which therefore can compete more successfully than before for nutrients, light, space and many other factors. As a result, populations of well-adapted species replace earlier ones now less well equipped to compete in the altered conditions. Thus, during the course of succession, individual populations come and go, giving rise to a gradual progressive change in the community. This can be considered as the natural process of the vegetation change. But most of the time human presence is inexorably changing the vegetation conditions. Human influence, through farming, deforestation, and urbanization, fragments the natural plant communities into smaller and smaller units. These activities affect not only the plant communities, but the animal communities as well.