Norden, Jenni and Harrison, Philip J and Mair, Louise and Siitonen, Juha and Lundström, Anders and Kindvall, Oskar and Snäll, Tord
(2020).
Occupancy versus colonization-extinction models for projecting population trends at different spatial scales.
Ecology and Evolution. 10
, 3079-3089
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Abstract
Understanding spatiotemporal population trends and their drivers is a key aim in population ecology. We further need to be able to predict how the dynamics and sizes of populations are affected in the long term by changing landscapes and climate. However, predictions of future population trends are sensitive to a range of modeling assumptions. Deadwood-dependent fungi are an excellent system for testing the performance of different predictive models of sessile species as these species have different rarity and spatial population dynamics, the populations are structured at different spatial scales, and they utilize distinct substrates. We tested how the projected large-scale occupancies of species with differing landscape-scale occupancies are affected over the coming century by different modeling assumptions. We compared projections based on occupancy models against colonization-extinction models, conducting the modeling at alternative spatial scales and using fine- or coarse-resolution deadwood data. We also tested effects of key explanatory variables on species occurrence and colonization-extinction dynamics. The hierarchical Bayesian models applied were fitted to an extensive repeated survey of deadwood and fungi at 174 patches. We projected higher occurrence probabilities and more positive trends using the occupancy models compared to the colonization-extinction models, with greater difference for the species with lower occupancy, colonization rate, and colonization:extinction ratio than for the species with higher estimates of these statistics. The magnitude of future increase in occupancy depended strongly on the spatial modeling scale and resource resolution. We encourage using colonization-extinction models over occupancy models, modeling the process at the finest resource-unit resolution that is utilizable by the species, and conducting projections for the same spatial scale and resource resolution at which the model fitting is conducted. Further, the models applied should include key variables driving the metapopulation dynamics, such as the availability of suitable resource units, habitat quality, and spatial connectivity.
Authors/Creators: | Norden, Jenni and Harrison, Philip J and Mair, Louise and Siitonen, Juha and Lundström, Anders and Kindvall, Oskar and Snäll, Tord | ||||||
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Title: | Occupancy versus colonization-extinction models for projecting population trends at different spatial scales | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | Ecology and Evolution | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
Volume: | 10 | ||||||
Page range: | 3079-3089 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 11 | ||||||
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons Ltd | ||||||
ISSN: | 2045-7758 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Ecology | ||||||
Keywords: | data resolution, environmental driver, population dynamics, predictive modeling, scenario, spatial modeling scale | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-104933 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-104933 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 17310 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Swedish Species Information Centre (S) > Dept. of Forest Resource Management (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Forest Resource Management | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 25 Aug 2020 11:13 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2021 19:44 |
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