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AUTHOR
Ute Bradter
Forecast the response of forest birds to climate change and forest management: does citizen science data provide accurate predictions?
In the context of global changes and biodiversity mass extinction, species distribution models (SDMs) are of major importance for conservation and management. In particular, such models can be used for mapping spatial distribution of endangered species and forecasting their response to climate and land-use change. In Sweden, intensive forestry has caused a strong decline of forest biodiversity. Climate change is also expected to cause range contractions for northern-boreal species which are at the limit of their range boundaries. As SDMs require a large amount of data, ideally collected over large spatial and temporal scales, citizen science based on volunteer reporting of species can const…
Habitat suitability models for the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus) from Citizen Science and systematic monitoring data: incorporating information about the reporting process
Opportunistically collected presence-only data contributed by volunteer reporters, so called Citizen Science data, are increasingly available for species and regions that lack systematic surveys. However, it is unclear if or how much the biases in opportunistically collected data influence different habitat suitability modelling methods and hence if they can be used with confidence to address different conservation questions. We evaluated habitat suitability models with opportunistically collected observations against models with systematically collected observations for a forest bird species, the Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus) in Sweden. Citizen Science data were obtained from the Swe…