Search Results - "Peterson, Townsend"

kuenm: an R package for detailed development of ecological niche models using Maxent by Cobos, Marlon E, Peterson, A Townsend, Barve, Narayani, Osorio-Olvera, Luis

“…Ecological niche modeling is a set of analytical tools with applications in diverse disciplines, yet creating these models rigorously is now a challenging…”
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Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling by Araújo, Miguel B, Peterson, A. Townsend

“…Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species' occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain…”
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Potential for spread of the white-nose fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) in the Americas: use of Maxent and NicheA to assure strict model transference by Escobar, Luis E, Lira-Noriega, Andrés, Medina-Vogel, Gonzalo, Townsend Peterson, A

“…Emerging infectious diseases can present serious threats to wildlife, even to the point of causing extinction. Whitenose fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans)…”
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Accessible areas in ecological niche comparisons of invasive species: Recognized but still overlooked by Qiao, Huijie, Escobar, Luis E., Peterson, A. Townsend

“…Understanding biological invasions is crucial for their control and prevention. Specially, establishing whether invasive species operate within the constraint…”
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Current and Future Distribution of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.) (Acari: Ixodidae) in North America by Raghavan, Ram K, Peterson, A Townsend, Cobos, Marlon E, Ganta, Roman, Foley, Des

“…Acarological surveys in areas outside the currently believed leading edge of the distribution of lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum), coupled with recent…”
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The ecology of chronic wasting disease in wildlife by Escobar, Luis E., Pritzkow, Sandra, Winter, Steven N., Grear, Daniel A., Kirchgessner, Megan S., Dominguez‐Villegas, Ernesto, Machado, Gustavo, Townsend Peterson, A., Soto, Claudio

“…ABSTRACT Prions are misfolded infectious proteins responsible for a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases termed transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or…”
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Major challenges for correlational ecological niche model projections to future climate conditions by Peterson, A. Townsend, Cobos, Marlon E., Jiménez‐García, Daniel

“…Species‐level forecasts of distributional potential and likely distributional shifts, in the face of changing climates, have become popular in the literature…”
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Relationships between population densities and niche‐centroid distances in North American birds by Osorio‐Olvera, Luis, Yañez‐Arenas, Carlos, Martínez‐Meyer, Enrique, Peterson, A. Townsend, Enquist, Brian

“…Correlational ecological niche models have seen intensive use and exploration as a means of estimating the limits of actual and potential geographic…”
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Climate change influences on the potential distribution of Dianthus polylepis Bien. ex Boiss. (Caryophyllaceae), an endemic species in the Irano-Turanian region by Behroozian, Maryam, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Peterson, A. Townsend, Memariani, Farshid, Mesdaghi, Mansour

“…Endemic and restricted-range species are considered to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of environmental change, which makes assessing likely climate…”
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Broad-scale factors shaping the ecological niche and geographic distribution of Spirodela polyrhiza by Cobos, Marlon E, Peterson, A Townsend

“…The choice of appropriate independent variables to create models characterizing ecological niches of species is of critical importance in distributional…”
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Assumption-versus data-based approaches to summarizing species' ranges by Peterson, A. Townsend, Navarro-Sigüenza, Adolfo G., Gordillo, Alejandro

“…For conservation decision making, species' geographic distributions are mapped using various approaches. Some such efforts have downscaled versions of…”
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Rethinking receiver operating characteristic analysis applications in ecological niche modeling by Peterson, A. Townsend, Papeş, Monica, Soberón, Jorge

“…The area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) has become a dominant tool in evaluating the accuracy of models predicting…”
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Climate change influences on the geographic distributional potential of the spotted fever vectors Amblyomma maculatum and Dermacentor andersoni by Alkishe, Abdelghafar, Peterson, A Townsend

“…(Gulf Coast tick), and (Rocky Mountain wood tick) are two North American ticks that transmit spotted fevers associated . transmits and , while transmits , ,…”
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Climate Change Influences on the Global Potential Distribution of the Mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus, Vector of West Nile Virus and Lymphatic Filariasis by Samy, Abdallah M, Elaagip, Arwa H, Kenawy, Mohamed A, Ayres, Constância F J, Peterson, A Townsend, Soliman, Doaa E

“…Rapid emergence of most vector-borne diseases (VBDs) may be associated with range expansion of vector populations. Culex quinquefasciatus Say 1823 is a…”
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Predicting Species Distributions from Small Numbers of Occurrence Records: A Test Case Using Cryptic Geckos in Madagascar by Pearson, Richard G., Raxworthy, Christopher J., Nakamura, Miguel, Peterson, A. Townsend

“…Aim Techniques that predict species potential distributions by combining observed occurrence records with environmental variables show much potential for…”
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Predicting the Geography of Species’ Invasions via Ecological Niche Modeling by Peterson, A. Townsend

“…Species’ invasions have long been regarded as enormously complex processes, so complex as to defy predictivity. Phases of this process, however, are emerging…”
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Climate change influences on the potential geographic distribution of the disease vector tick Ixodes ricinus by Alkishe, Abdelghafar A, Peterson, A Townsend, Samy, Abdallah M

“…Ixodes ricinus is a species of hard tick that transmits several important diseases in Europe and North Africa, including Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne…”
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Assessing the current and future potential geographic distribution of the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say) (Acari: Ixodidae) in North America by Boorgula, Gunavanthi D. Y, Peterson, A. Townsend, Foley, Desmond H, Ganta, Roman R, Raghavan, Ram K

“…The American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis, is a veterinary- and medically- significant tick species that is known to transmit several diseases to animal…”
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A checklist for maximizing reproducibility of ecological niche models by Feng, Xiao, Park, Daniel S., Walker, Cassondra, Peterson, A. Townsend, Merow, Cory, Papeş, Monica

“…Reporting specific modelling methods and metadata is essential to the reproducibility of ecological studies, yet guidelines rarely exist regarding what…”
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The crucial role of the accessible area in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling by Barve, Narayani, Barve, Vijay, Jiménez-Valverde, Alberto, Lira-Noriega, Andrés, Maher, Sean P., Peterson, A. Townsend, Soberón, Jorge, Villalobos, Fabricio

“…► Use of ecological niche modeling approaches should be grounded in a clear conceptual framework for species’ environmental and geographic distributions. ► The…”
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