Spatial Distribution of the Greater Sage-grouse in the Powder River Basin in Northeastern Wyoming
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ix CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Thesis Organization 7 CHAPTER 2: RELATED WORK 8 2.1 Types of Species Distribution Models 8 2.2 The MAXENT Model and Applications 10 CHAPTER 3: METHODS AND DATA 15 3.1 Typical Species Distribution Model Workflow 15 3.2 Presence Data 17 3.3 Explanatory Variables 17 3.4 MAXENT Model Runs 22 3.5 Assessment of Model and Variable Performance 23 CHAPTER 4: RESULTS 25 4.1 Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Observation Data 25 4.2 Contributions and Importance of Variables 25 4.3 Model Validation 28 4.4 Final Habitat Suitability Maps 32
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