Ecological Niche Modeling Conceptual Workflows Deana Pennington University of New Mexico December 16, 2004.

Ecological Niche Modeling Conceptual

Workflows

Deana PenningtonUniversity of New Mexico

December 16, 2004

Wed/Thursday

Wed morning: Kepler training Wed afternoon: Workflows that can be

slightly modified from the mammal/climate change workflow (community + help from SEEK)

Thurs: Workflows that require substantive new functionality

User list

Kepler-project.org->Getting involved->kepler-users mailing list

Usability

Survey and consent forms

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=90778724262

Community projects

Workflows that could be done with minor modification to the mammal/climate change workflow

Variations on CC theme

Paleoclimates Analysis for all species, undeveloped

country Other places/other species Different scales

Re-sampling: bootstrapping and

jacknifing

Working

Invasive Species

Monitoring

Community/SEEK projects

Workflows that could require substantially different actors

Dispersal Productivity from remotely-

sensed imagery ???

Others

Macroecology

Needed

Stat/process model comparison/calibratio

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Environmental space

ENM Tasks1. Detecting species interactions2. Evaluate impacts on species’ distributions (e.g., human activities, environmental characteristics,

interactions, history, ecology, etc.)3. Designing monitoring systems (e.g., under climate change scenarios)4. Map genetic diversity onto biogeographic patterns/species distributions/landscape diversity5. Map biogeographic/phylogeographic patterns across multiple species6. Time series analyses of species’ distributions; analysis of coupling/decoupling of species’ ecological

nichs through time7. Developing scenarios of invasion and filling a potential distribution8. Discovery of new species (prediction of)9. Constrain of potential distributional areas to actual distributional areas10. Model validation11. Inference of physiological parameters from distributions or vice versa12. Evaluate dispersal capabilities13. Macroecological analysis

Conservation prioritization (complementarity, etc.) Analysis of beta-alpha-gamma diversity, etc. Other manifestations…

14. Predict densities of populations (persistence)15. Analysis of completeness of data sets (e.g., inventory completeness)16. Using known interactions to reconstruct systems (e.g., diseases)17. Overlay biotic patterns with human activity (e.g., land use)

Single species Multiple species

18. Evaluate utility of environmental surrogacy for representing biodiversity information19. Classification of biotic domains into a regionalization20. Evaluation of representativeness and bias in data sets (realm/range of inference)21. Detection of errors in data sets (quality control for taxonomy and geographic references in data sets )22. Model validation23. Model ecosystems (e.g., species composition) based on simulated/created data sets to evaluate

different techniques