TY - JOUR
T1 - Local management in a regional context
T2 - Simulations with process-based species distribution models
AU - Szewczyk, Tim M.
AU - Lee, Tom
AU - Ducey, Mark J.
AU - Aiello-Lammens, Matthew E.
AU - Bibaud, Hayley
AU - Allen, Jenica M.
N1 - The author was not affiliated to SAMS at the time of publication
Funding Information:
This project was funding through United States Department of Agriculture NIFA award 2017-67023-26272 and National Science Foundation award IIS-1717368. Partial funding was provided by the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station . This is Scientific Contribution Number 2829. This work was supported by the USDA National Institude of Food and Agriculture McIntire-Stennis Projects 82 . We are grateful for feedback and input from Shadi Atallah, Karen Bennett, Ju-Chin Huang, Jessica Leahy, Marek Petrik, Katie Moran, Mitchell O’Neill, Ceara Sweetser, and Stephen Eisenhaure.
Funding Information:
This project was funding through United States Department of Agriculture NIFA award 2017-67023-26272 and National Science Foundation award IIS-1717368. Partial funding was provided by the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. This is Scientific Contribution Number 2829. This work was supported by the USDA National Institude of Food and Agriculture McIntire-Stennis Projects 82. We are grateful for feedback and input from Shadi Atallah, Karen Bennett, Ju-Chin Huang, Jessica Leahy, Marek Petrik, Katie Moran, Mitchell O'Neill, Ceara Sweetser, and Stephen Eisenhaure.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Ecological models often strive to inform conservation and management decisions. Occurrence-based distribution models may aid regional management strategies, though many management decisions require information beyond the likely presence of a species provided by such models. Process-based distribution models predict geographic distributions using environmental relationships with biological processes, providing more detailed predictions and a key opportunity for data-driven management. Here, we develop and characterize a novel demography-based regional distribution model and illustrate its use by comparing four management strategies for glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus), a bird-dispersed shrub invasive throughout the northeastern United States. On a gridded landscape in southern New Hampshire and Maine, this population-level simulation includes fruiting, seed dispersal, seed bank dynamics, germination and establishment, and annual survival, with land cover as the dominant environmental driver. We parameterize the model with field and lab studies, supplementing with published data, expert knowledge, and pattern-oriented parameterization with historical records. In a comprehensive sensitivity analysis, we found that the age at which individuals are capable of reproduction and the frequency of long distance dispersal had the strongest influence on the distribution. In our management simulations, we found that immigration prevents total eradication within any property regardless of management frequency or coordination, though management impacts are detectable in nearby un-managed cells via reduced seed deposition. The flexible model structure combines multiple disparate data sources similar to those available for many species into a synthetic framework of local and regional biological processes, allows the incorporation of specific management actions targeting particular processes and life stages into the regional context of a process-based species distribution model, and provides a robust method for evaluating potential management strategies.
AB - Ecological models often strive to inform conservation and management decisions. Occurrence-based distribution models may aid regional management strategies, though many management decisions require information beyond the likely presence of a species provided by such models. Process-based distribution models predict geographic distributions using environmental relationships with biological processes, providing more detailed predictions and a key opportunity for data-driven management. Here, we develop and characterize a novel demography-based regional distribution model and illustrate its use by comparing four management strategies for glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus), a bird-dispersed shrub invasive throughout the northeastern United States. On a gridded landscape in southern New Hampshire and Maine, this population-level simulation includes fruiting, seed dispersal, seed bank dynamics, germination and establishment, and annual survival, with land cover as the dominant environmental driver. We parameterize the model with field and lab studies, supplementing with published data, expert knowledge, and pattern-oriented parameterization with historical records. In a comprehensive sensitivity analysis, we found that the age at which individuals are capable of reproduction and the frequency of long distance dispersal had the strongest influence on the distribution. In our management simulations, we found that immigration prevents total eradication within any property regardless of management frequency or coordination, though management impacts are detectable in nearby un-managed cells via reduced seed deposition. The flexible model structure combines multiple disparate data sources similar to those available for many species into a synthetic framework of local and regional biological processes, allows the incorporation of specific management actions targeting particular processes and life stages into the regional context of a process-based species distribution model, and provides a robust method for evaluating potential management strategies.
KW - Cellular automata
KW - Grid-based distribution
KW - Population model
KW - Spatially explicit
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108827
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108827
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073104606
SN - 0304-3800
VL - 413
JO - Ecological Modelling
JF - Ecological Modelling
M1 - 108827
ER -