The importance of being spatial (and reserved): Assessing northern spotted owl habitat relationships with hierarchical Bayesian models

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1026-1036

  Carroll, Carlos ^a   Johnson, Devin S ^b  

^a Klamath Center for Conservation Research   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Focal species; Habitat relationships; Northwest Forest Plan; Spatial autoregressive model; Species distribution model; Spotted Owl; Strix occidentalis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAPTOR; REGIONAL PLANNING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TREE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STRIGIFORMES; TREES;

STRIGIFORMES; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS CAURINA;

EID: 48749099721     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00931.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Anthony, R. G., et al. 2006. Status and trends in demography of Northern Spotted Owls, 1985-2003. Wildlife Monographs 163 : 1 48.
2. Clark, J. S. 2007. Models for ecological data: an introduction. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
3. Davis, R. J., and J. B. Lint. 2005. Habitat status and trend. Pages 21 82 in J. B. Lint, technical coordinator. Northwest forest plan - the first ten years (1994-2003): status and trend of Northern Spotted Owl populations and habitat. General technical report PNW-GRT-648. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon.
4. Dormann, C. F., et al. 2007. Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review. Ecography 30 : 609 628.
5. Dugger, K. M, F. Wagner, R. G. Anthony, and G. S. Olson. 2005. The relationship between habitat characteristics and demographic performance of Northern Spotted Owls in southern Oregon. Condor 107 : 863 878.
6. Forsman, E. D., E. C. Meslow, and H. M. Wight. 1984. Distribution and biology of the Spotted Owl in Oregon. Wildlife Monographs 87 : 1 64.
7. Franklin, A. B., D. R. Anderson, R. J. Gutiérrez, and K. P. Burnham. 2000. Climate, habitat quality, and fitness in Northern Spotted Owl populations in northwestern California. Ecological Monographs 70 : 539 590.
8. Gelfand, A. E., and S. K. Ghosh. 1998. Model choice: a minimum posterior predictive loss approach. Biometrika 85 : 1 11.
9. Gelman, A., J. B. Carlin, H. S. Stern, and D. B. Rubin. 2004. Bayesian data analysis. 2nd edition. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
10. Latimer, A. M., S. Wu, A. E. Gelfand, and J. A. Silander Jr. 2006. Building statistical models to analyze species distributions. Ecological Applications 16 : 33 50.
11. Martin, T. G., B. A. Wintle, J. R. Rhodes, P. M. Kuhnert, S. A. Field, S. J. Low-Chey, A. J. Tyre, and H. Possingham. 2005. Zero tolerance ecology: improving ecological inference by modelling the source of zero observations. Ecology Letters 8 : 1235 1246.
12. McCullagh, P., and J. A. Nelder. 1989. Generalized linear models. 2nd edition. Chapman & Hall, New York.
13. Noon, B. R., and J. A. Blakesley. 2006. Conservation of the Northern Spotted Owl under the northwest forest plan. Conservation Biology 20 : 288 296.
14. Olson, G. S., E. Glenn, R. G. Anthony, E. D. Forsman, J. A. Reid, P. J. Loschl, and W. J. Ripple. 2004. Modeling demographic performance of Northern Spotted Owls relative to forest habitat in Oregon. Journal of Wildlife Management 68 : 1039 1053.
15. Spiegelhalter, D., A. Thomas, N. Best, and D. Lunn. 2003. WinBUGS user manual. Version 1.4. MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Available from http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs (accessed November 2007).
16. Strittholt, J. R., D. A. Dellasala, and H. Jiang. 2006. Status of mature and old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. Conservation Biology 20 : 363 374.
17. USFS (U.S. Forest Service). 1988. Spotted Owl inventory and monitoring handbook. USFS, Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, California.
18. USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). 1992. Final draft recovery plan for the Northern Spotted Owl. USFWS, Portland, Oregon.
19. USFWS (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). 2007. Draft recovery plan for the Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina). USFWS, Portland, Oregon.
20. Zabel, C. J., J. R. Dunk, H. B. Stauffer, L. M. Roberts, B. S. Mulder, and A. Wright. 2003. Northern Spotted Owl habitat models for research and management application in California (USA). Ecological Applications 13 : 1027 1040.