Sampling methodology influences habitat suitability modeling for Chiropteran species

Technological advances increase opportunities for novel wildlife survey methods. With increased detection methods, many organizations and agencies are creating habitat suitability models (HSMs) to identify critical habitats and prioritize conservation measures. However, multiple occurrence data types are utilized independently to create these HSMs with little understanding of how biases inherent to those data might impact HSM efficacy.
We sought to understand how different data types can influence HSMs using three bat species (L. borealis, L. cinereus, and P. subflavus). We compared the overlap of models created from passive-only (acoustics), active-only (mist-netting and wind turbine mortalities), and combined occurrences to identify the effect of multiple data types and detection bias.
For each species, the active-only models had the highest discriminatory ability to tell occurrence from background points and for two of the three species, active-only models performed best at maximizin..., , , Reference Information
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* File name: README.txt
* Authors: Sarah M. Gaulke
* Other contributors: Tara C. Hohoff, Brittany A. Rogness, Mark A. Davis
* Date created: 2023-04-01
* Date modified: 2023-04-01

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* Dataset Title: Data for the article \"Sampling Methodology Influences Habitat Suitability Modeling for Chiropteran Species\"

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* Creators: Sarah M. Gaulke, Tara C. Hohoff, Brittany A. Rogness, Mark A. Davis

* Date of Issue: 2023-01-16

* Publisher: Ecology and Evolution

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