Species-environment associations and predicted distribution of Black Oystercatcher breeding pairs in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
We present a species distribution model (SDM) for prediction of Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) breeding pair occurrence in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. Boosted regression trees, a machine learning algorithm, was used to fit the model. In total, 14 predictors were selected a priori throu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2017-12-01
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Series: | Avian Conservation and Ecology |
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Online Access: | http://www.ace-eco.org/vol12/iss2/art9/ |