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    • Enhancing animal movement analyses - Spatiotemporal matching of animal positions with remotely sensed data using Google Earth Engine and R
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    • Inferring interspecific interactions among African savanna herbivores using bias-corrected co-abundance patterns
    • Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Cross-Boundary Connectivity of an Ecological Network across a Fragmented Landscape
    • An effective model for community‐based conservation around authorized fishing settlements inside a devolved Wildlife Management Area in southern Tanzania
    • AviaTAD-LGH: A Multi-Task Spatio-Temporal Action Detector with Lightweight Gradient Harmonization for Real-Time Avian Behavior Monitoring
    • Ontogeny and individuality in flight trajectories of a soaring specialist
    • Linking eBird data with high spatiotemporal remote sensing products to estimate occupancy of bird populations across the island of Ireland
    • Validating habitat suitability assessments with post-translocation animal movement data
    • Adaptive response in waterbirds after mink introduction in subantarctic ecosystems
    • A Subjective and Intuitive Approach to Rapid, Holistic Assessment of Natural Ecosystem Integrity Across a Community-Managed Conservation Area in Southern Tanzania
    • Direct comparative assessment of radial and transect surveys to document wild mammal activity across diverse habitat types
    • Human footprint and rainfall shape Masai giraffe's habitat suitability and connectivity in a multiple‐use landscape
    • A camera-trap assessment of the native and invasive mammals present in protected areas of Magallanes, Chilean Patagonia
    • Understanding ground-nesting habitat selection by waterbirds to prioritize invasive predator control on islands
    • Understanding the transition of community land use from shifting cultivation to cash cropping in southern Tanintharyi, Myanmar
    • Beyond protected areas: The importance of mixed-use landscapes for the conservation of Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus)
    • Non-systematic surveys reveal increases in areas occupied by endangered and data-deficient Nubian bustard
    • Monitoring spatiotemporal dynamics of large herbivores across an African rangeland using hierarchical multi‐species distance sampling
    • Combining species distribution models and moderate resolution satellite information to guide conservation programs for reticulated giraffe
    • Ranging behaviours across ecological and anthropogenic disturbance gradients: a pan-African perspective of giraffe (Giraffa spp.) space use
    • Wild herbivores enhance resistance to invasion by exotic cacti in an African savanna
    • The Subantarctic Rayadito (Aphrastura subantarctica), a new bird species on the southernmost islands of the Americas
    • Implementation of species distribution models in Google Earth Engine
    • Cascading effects of a disease outbreak in a remote protected area
    • Increasing Anthropogenic Disturbance Restricts Wildebeest Movement Across East African Grazing Systems
    • Less Is More: Lowering Cattle Stocking Rates Enhances Wild Herbivore Habitat Use and Cattle Foraging Efficiency
    • Spatial segregation between wild ungulates and livestock outside protected areas in the lowlands of Nepal
    • Experimental evidence that effects of megaherbivores on mesoherbivore space use are influenced by species' traits
    • Enhancing Animal Movement Analyses: Spatiotemporal Matching of Animal Positions with Remotely Sensed Data Using Google Earth Engine and R
    • Moving through the mosaic: identifying critical linkage zones for large herbivores across a multiple‐use African landscape
    • Colaboración científica con la Armada de Chile en estudios ornitológicos a largo plazo en el archipiélago Diego Ramírez: Primer monitoreo del ciclo anual del ensamble de aves en la isla Gonzalo
    • Un centinela para el monitoreo del cambio climático y su impacto sobre la biodiversidad en la cumbre austral de América: La nueva red de estudios a largo Plazo Cabo de Hornos
    • Nest-site selection and breeding success of passerines in the world’s southernmost forests
    • Unexpected lack of effect of the invasive American mink on the nesting survival of forest birds
    • Spatiotemporal dynamics of wild herbivore species richness and occupancy across a savannah rangeland: Implications for conservation
    • Breeding strategies of open-cup-nesting birds in sub-Antarctic forests of Navarino Island, Chile
    • New records of invasive mammals from the sub-Antarctic Cape Horn Archipelago
    • Los ojos del árbol: percibiendo, registrando, comprendiendo y contrarrestando las invasiones biológicas en tiempos de rápida homogeneizacion biocultural
    • Macro- and micro-habitat selection of small rodents and their predation risk perception under a novel invasive predator at the southern end of the Americas
    • Potential niche expansion of the American mink invading a remote island free of native-predatory mammals
    • Native-predator-invasive-prey trophic interactions in Tierra del Fuego: the beginning of biological resistance?
    • Primer registro de Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus 1758) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) en la isla Navarino, Chile
    • A synergistic trio of invasive mammals? Facilitative interactions among beavers, muskrats, and mink at the southern end of the Americas
    • Expansión de la invasión del Visón Norteamericano (Neovison vison) en la Reserva de la Biosfera de Cabo de Hornos, Chile
    • Filosofía ambiental de campo: ecología y ética en las redes LTER-Chile e ILTER
    • Potential impact of the alien American mink (Neovison vison) on Magellanic woodpeckers (Campephilus magallanicus) in Navarino Island, southern Chile
    • Climate change and conservation implications for wet meadows in dry Patagonia
    • Modeling meadow distribution for conservation action in arid and semi-arid Patagonia, Argentina
    • Capturing and radio ear-tagging neonatal vicuñas
    • Una técnica para la estimación de la densidad y el monitoreo de poblaciones de inambú común (Nothura maculosa) en ambientes de pastizal
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    • Where are the giraffes hiding? Predictive tracking tech points the way
    • A new bird species in Chile.
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    • Seasonal dynamic habitat use suggests niche expansion of an invasive predator at the southernmost forest of the world
    • Assessing habitat preference of invasive minks (Neovison vison) using trap-cameras in Navarino Island, Chile
    • Breeding strategies of passerines in the world’s southernmost forests
    • Identifying nesting habitats of shorebirds under mink predation in subantarctic environments
    • Movement patterns around dens in two Illinois beaver populations
    • Donkey and guanacos abundances and group characteristics before and after donkey removal in Northwestern Argentina
    • Capturing and marking newborn vicuñas with ear tag transmitters at San Guillermo National Park, Argentina
    • Vigilant and foraging budgets of vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) in habitats with different vegetation structure
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Species Distribution Modeling with Google Earth Engine - ARSET course

Species Distribution Modeling with Google Earth Engine - ARSET course

2026-Jul-15 · 0 min read
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