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A Plethodontid Perspective: Responding to Disturbance — From Hourly Weather to Historical Settlement and Modern Fire

Wilk, Andrew John
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5469-9799
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1651933049150938

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2022, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Environment and Natural Resources.
Understanding the drivers of “where” and “how many” is fundamental to wildlife ecology and conservation. For decades, species distribution modelers have drawn predictions of where species will occur from presence-only or presence/assumed-absence data and climate norms, topography, and vegetation while ignoring the rich history that land has to offer. Despite the recognized importance of incorporating detection processes into wildlife analyses and how land use history can affect present day populations, they largely are ignored for simplicity or a lack of data. This thesis begins by evaluating weather downscaling methods int the recent microclimc package to understand if the outputs are accurate and then passes those that are to distribution models for five species of plethodontid salamander which incorporates imperfect detection and a variety of historical disturbance. The resulting fit, predictions, and validation are compared between models that incorporate detection, disturbance, or both in addition to topographic features. Finally, it ends by using the robust toolset available through abundance modeling to examine “how many” individuals are present across a range of recent wildfire severity.
William Peterman (Advisor)
Stephen Matthews (Committee Member)
Gwilym Davies (Committee Member)
100 p.
Ecology; Natural Resource Management; Wildlife Conservation
wildlife; fire ecology; disturbance; plethodon; microclimate; distribution model; imperfect detection; abundance model

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  • Wilk, A. J. (2022). A Plethodontid Perspective: Responding to Disturbance — From Hourly Weather to Historical Settlement and Modern Fire [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1651933049150938

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wilk, Andrew. A Plethodontid Perspective: Responding to Disturbance — From Hourly Weather to Historical Settlement and Modern Fire. 2022. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1651933049150938.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wilk, Andrew. "A Plethodontid Perspective: Responding to Disturbance — From Hourly Weather to Historical Settlement and Modern Fire." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1651933049150938

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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