BIOC63H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mule Deer, African Forest Elephant, Time Travel In Fiction
13 Dec 2013
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Bioc63fall2013 lecture 18: species and landscape approach ii. Largest pops of forest elephant, chimps, and gorillas. Species conservation depends on: distribution and biology of target species or population. Elephants and gorillas are herbivores so they lake forests with lots of understory (herbacous food plants) bais, streams rich with minerals that draw animals and birds to cover their mineral needs elephants go there to drink water and eat mud in order to get full range of minerals that they need. Vegetation use by species: non-invasive mapping: find dung piles for elephants, habitat transects record distribution of elephant dung piles, empty sleep nests for gorillas and chimps, knowledge of habitat needs of target species. Variation of data explained by predictors (100% is the maximum) Feed the strength of prediction into gis statistical model to see where the good habitat for the species is. Values closer to 0 means that hypothesis is not helpful, closer to 100 means important.
