Modelling and spatial discrimination of small mammal assemblages: An example from western Sichuan (China)

Amélie Vaniscotte, David R.J. Pleydell, Francis Raoul, Jean Pierre Quéré, Qiu Jiamin, Qian Wang, Li Tiaoying, Nadine Bernard, Michael Coeurdassier, Pierre Delattre, Kenichi Takahashi, Jean-Christophe Weidmann and Patrick Giraudoux

Ecological Modelling, 2009, vol. 220, issue 9, 1218-1231

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between landscape heterogeneity and the spatial distribution of small mammals in two areas of Western Sichuan, China. Given a large diversity of species trapped within a large number of habitats, we first classified small mammal assemblages and then modelled the habitat of each in the space of quantitative environmental descriptors. Our original two step “classify then model” procedure is appropriate for the frequently encountered study scenario: trapping data collected in remote areas with sampling guided by expert field knowledge.

Keywords: Small mammal assemblages; Habitat distribution modelling; Mixture discriminant analysis; Multiple adaptive regression spline; Environmental gradients (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.02.019

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