Estimated Probabilities from Lidar Models for Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) Occupancy in Forest Vegetation Stands in the Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon

Publication Date

2018-06-05

Start Date

1988-03-19

End Date

2016-08-04

Hagar, J.C., Haggerty, P.K., Aragon, R., Hollenbeck, J.P., and Nelson, S.K., 2018, Estimated probabilities from lidar models for marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) occupancy in forest vegetation stands in the Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9472SZW.

Type: Related Primary Publication

The goal of this project was to develop a model that can be used to accurately map Marbled Murrelet occupancy probability to facilitate the identification and monitoring of critical nesting habitat in the Siuslaw N.F on the central Oregon coast. Models developed at one location are unlikely to be generally applicable across the entire geographic range of a given species because relationships between habitat use and environmental conditions are spatially variable (Latif et al. 2016). However, the model predicting murrelet nesting habitat developed for the Coos Bay region (Hagar et al. 2014) performed surprisingly well when applied at a new location, in the Siuslaw NF. When parameterized with coefficients derived from local data, the model discriminated habitat as well at the new location (Siuslaw National Forest) as at the development location (Coos Bay BLM District).

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