Estimating abundance from presence/absence maps

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 550-559

  Hwang, Wen Han ^a   He, Fangliang ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clumping parameter; Gamma Poisson distribution; Negative binomial distribution; Presence absence map; Spatial aggregation; Species abundance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864280981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00105.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Arrhenius, O. (1921) Species and area. Journal of Ecology, 9, 95-99.
2. Cliff, A.D. & Ord, J.K. (1981) Spatial Processes: Models and Applications. Pion, London.
3. Coleman, B.D. (1981) On random placement and species-area relations. Mathematical Biosciences, 54, 191-215.
4. Conlisk, E., Conlisk, J. & Harte, J. (2007) The impossibility of estimating a negative binomial clustering parameter from presence-absence data: a comment on He and Gaston. American Naturalist, 170, 651-654.
5. Conlisk, E., Conlisk, J., Enquist, B., Thompson, J. & Harte, J. (2008) Improved abundance prediction from presence-absence data. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 18, 1-10.
6. Cressie, N. & Pavlicová, M. (2002) Calibrated spatial moving average simulations. Statistical Modelling, 2, 267-279.
7. Gaston, K.J. & Blackburn, T.M. (2000) Pattern and Process in Macroecology. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.
8. Gaston, K.J. & He, F. (2010) Species occurrence and occupancy. Biological Diversity: Frontiers in Measurement and Assessment (eds A. Maguran & B. McGill), pp. 141-151. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
9. Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M., Greenwood, J.J.D., Gregory, R.D., Quinn, R.M. & Lawton, J.H. (2000) Abundance-occupancy relationships. Journal of Applied Ecology, 37(Suppl. 1), 39-59.
10. He, F. & Condit, R. (2007) The distribution of species: occupancy, scale and rarity. Scaling Biodiversity (eds D. Storch, P.L. Marquet & J.H. Brown), pp. 32-50. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
11. He, F. & Gaston, K.J. (2000) Estimating species abundance from occurrence. American Naturalist, 156, 553-559.
12. He, F. & Gaston, K.J. (2007) Estimating abundance from occurrence: an underdetermined problem. American Naturalist, 170, 655-659.
13. He, F. & Hubbell, S.P. (2003) Percolation theory for the distribution and abundance of species. Physical Review Letters, 91, 198103.
14. He, F. & Reed, W. (2006) Downscaling abundance from the distribution of species: occupancy theory and applications. Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications (eds J. Wu, K.B. Jones, H. Li & O.L. Loucks), pp. 89-108. Springer, Dordrecht.
15. Hidgon, D. (1998) A process-convolution approach to modelling temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 5, 173-190.
16. Hui, C., McGeoch, M.A. & Warren, M. (2006) A spatially explicit approach to estimating species occupancy and spatial correlation. Journal of Animal Ecology, 75, 140-147.
17. Hui, C., McGeoch, M.A., Reyers, B., le Roux, P.C., Greve, M. & Chown, S.L. (2009) Extrapolating population size from the occupancy-abundance relationship and the scaling pattern of occupancy. Ecological Applications, 19, 2038-2048.
18. Kunin, W.E. (1998) Extrapolating species abundance across spatial scales. Science, 281, 1513-1515.
19. Kunin, W.E., Hartley, S. & Lennon, J.J. (2000) Scaling down: on the challenge of estimating abundance from occurrence patterns. American Naturalist, 156, 560-566.
20. MacKenzie, D.I., Nichols, J.D., Lachman, G.B., Droege, S., Royle, J.A. & Langtimm, C.A. (2002) Estimating site occupancy rates when detection probabilities are less than one. Ecology, 83, 2248-2255.
21. McPherson, J.M., Jetz, W. & Rogers, D.J. (2006) Using coarse-grained occurrence data to predict species distributions at finer spatial resolutions - possibilities and limitations. Ecological Modelling, 192, 499-522.
22. Pielou, E.C. (1977) Mathematical ecology. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
23. Walther, B.A. & Moore, J.L. (2005) The definitions of bias, precision, and accuracy, and their use in testing the performance of species richness estimators, with a literature review of estimator performance. Ecography, 28, 815-829.
24. Warren, M., McGeoch, M.A. & Chown, S.L. (2003) Predicting abundance from occupancy: a test for an aggregated insect assemblage. Journal of Animal Ecology, 72, 468-477.
25. Wolpert, R.L. & Ickstadt, K. (1998) Poisson/Gamma random field models for spatial statistics. Biometrika, 85, 251-267.
26. Wright, D.H. (1991) Correlations between incidence and abundance are expected by chance. Journal of Biogeography, 18, 463-466.