Landscape Patterns of Florida Scrub Jay Habitat Use and Demographic Success

Breininger, David R.; Larson, Vickie L.; Duncan, Brean W.; Smith, Rebecca B.; Oddy, Donna M.; Goodchild, Michael F.

doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1995.09061442.x

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“…This is the case for the Florida Scrub-Jay; it is listed as a federally threatened species and is considered an indicator of suitable habitat conditions for many other species. Suitable Scrub-Jay habitat includes areas with sandy openings, sufficient scrub oak cover, little or no tree cover, and shrub heights of 1-2 m (Woolfenden and Fitzpatrick, 1984;Breininger et al, 1995;Duncan et al, 1999). KMCC is one of the three remaining population cores for the Florida Scrub-Jay (Stith et al, 1996).…”

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Delineating a managed fire regime and exploring its relationship to the natural fire regime in East Central Florida, USA: A remote sensing and GIS approach

Duncan

Shao

Adrian³

2009

Forest Ecology and Management

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Delineating a managed fire regime and exploring its relationship to the natural fire regime in East Central Florida, USA: A remote sensing and GIS approach

Duncan

Shao

Adrian³

2009

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…Murphy & Noon 1992, Breininger et al 1995. Much effort has focused on predictive spatial modeling of individual species in both terrestrial ecosystems (see review by Guisan & Zimmerman 2000) and estuaries (e.g.…”

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Using estuarine landscape structure to model distribution patterns in nekton communities and in juveniles of fishery species

Whaley¹,

Burd²,

Robertson³

2007

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Spatial relationships between distribution patterns of many species and vegetated habitats over multiple scales have been used in terrestrial ecosystems to help identify and map important areas for conservation and management. This approach is not widely used in characterizing habitat use of nekton species in estuaries, but it has great potential because these systems contain fairly discrete vegetated habitat types, and the distribution of nekton species can be influenced by the spatial arrangement of habitat. We examined the spatial relationships between estuarine habitats and nekton species to help map estuarine nekton communities for use in conservation planning. Using a Geographic Information System (GIS), we measured area (m 2 ) and edge density (m km -2 ) of estuarine habitats over multiple scales in Charlotte Harbor, Florida (USA). We used redundancy analysis (RDA) to examine spatial patterns of nekton community composition, habitat, and local habitat characteristics. RDA revealed that spatial patterns in nekton community composition were most highly correlated with distance from the nearest pass to the Gulf of Mexico (r = -0.97) and with salinity (r = 0.94) and area of continuous seagrass habitat (r = 0.91). We used GIS maps of 2 variables (distance from the nearest pass and area of continuous seagrass habitat) to model spatial patterns in nekton community composition and the distribution of several juveniles of fishery species (red drum Sciaenops ocellatus, gray snapper Lutjanus griseus, lane snapper L. synagris, sand seatrout Cynoscion arenarius, and spotted seatrout C. nebulosus). The results suggest that incorporating measures of habitat area (over multiple scales) and spatial position into spatial models of nekton distribution is useful in conservation and management planning.

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“…In concept, habitat suitability models should reflect the dynamics of a population such that areas of relatively high suitability support populations with relatively high fecundities and survivorships. Breininger et al (1995, 1998) linked habitat suitability for Florida Scrub‐Jays to fecundity and survival as well as to population abundance.…”

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Setting Reliability Bounds on Habitat Suitability Indices

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et al. 2001

Ecological Applications

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We expressed quantitative and qualitative uncertainties in suitability index functions as triangular distributions and used the mechanics of fuzzy numbers to solve for the distribution of uncertainty around the habitat suitability indices derived from them. We applied this approach to a habitat model for the Florida Scrub‐Jay. The results demonstrate that priorities and decisions associated with management and assessment of ecological systems may be influenced by an explicit consideration of the reliability of the indices.

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Landscape Patterns of Florida Scrub Jay Habitat Use and Demographic Success

Cited by 45 publications

References 15 publications

Delineating a managed fire regime and exploring its relationship to the natural fire regime in East Central Florida, USA: A remote sensing and GIS approach

Delineating a managed fire regime and exploring its relationship to the natural fire regime in East Central Florida, USA: A remote sensing and GIS approach

Using estuarine landscape structure to model distribution patterns in nekton communities and in juveniles of fishery species

Setting Reliability Bounds on Habitat Suitability Indices

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