Untangling drivers of species distributions: Global sensitivity and uncertainty analyses of MaxEnt

Uncertainty in ensemble modelling of large-scale species distribution: Effects from species characteristics and model techniques

“…However, in current study, among all the evaluation results from AUC, TSS and Kappa, there is no significant difference between the three evaluate methods, which interpret that the use of evaluation measures didn't interrupt the outcomes of statistical models, we can thus verified that the relationship between species characteristics and model performance was not artificial associated with use of accuracy measures (Newbold et al, 2009). However, to be more concisely evaluated the model performance, some recently studies presented one kind of global sensitivity and uncertainty analysis (GSUA) in SDMs (Convertino et al, 2014), compare with the traditional sensitivity analyses, GSUA is a robust method to globally investigate the uncertainty of SDMs and the importance of species distributions' drivers in space and time.…”

Coupled impacts of sea-level rise and tidal marsh restoration on endangered California clapper rail

“…Notable approaches are portfolio decision analysis and multi-criteria analysis Linhoss et al, 2013), that can be used to balance conflicting interests from biological conservation and socioeconomic sectors. In our future effort, we plan to employ global sensitivity and uncertainty analyses; such tools have demonstrated their value in exploring uncertainties in the response of habitat suitability and abundance to various environmental and anthropogenic drivers (Chu-Agor et al, 2012;Convertino et al, 2014Convertino et al, , 2012b.…”

Public Participatory Mapping of Cultural Ecosystem Services: Citizen Perception and Park Management in the Parco Nord of Milan (Italy)

“…On the contrary, the benefits mapped by the park management were never marked "for the whole park", rather park management considered the presence of specific features in each of the land units. As this work aim to have decision-relevance, it is important to remind the uncertainty that accompanies ES assessments [32,33] due to their high complexity and their integrative position between human and environmental systems [34] and the difficulties associated with accurate representation [35].…”

“…On the contrary, the benefits mapped by the park management were never marked "for the whole park", rather park management considered the presence of specific features in each of the land units. As this work aim to have decision-relevance, it is important to remind the uncertainty that accompanies ES assessments [32,33] due to their high complexity and their integrative position between human and environmental systems [34] and the difficulties associated with accurate representation [35]. The resulting focal points of cultural benefits provision in this study is consistent with what is found in other studies and were normally related to landscape features, land cover forms [19,36] or to specific features of the area, like such as the presence of historical buildings, or facilities for outdoor activities.…”