| Title |
Multiscale Analyses of Mammal Species Composition – Environment Relationship in the Contiguous USA
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, September 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0025440 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Rafi Kent, Avi Bar-Massada, Yohay Carmel |
| Abstract |
Relationships between species composition and its environmental determinants are a basic objective of ecology. Such relationships are scale dependent, and predictors of species composition typically include variables such as climate, topographic, historical legacies, land uses, human population levels, and random processes. Our objective was to quantify the effect of environmental determinants on U.S. mammal composition at various spatial scales. We found that climate was the predominant factor affecting species composition, and its relative impact increased in correlation with the increase of the spatial scale. Another factor affecting species composition is land-use-land-cover. Our findings showed that its impact decreased as the spatial scale increased. We provide quantitative indication of highly significant effect of climate and land-use-land-cover variables on mammal composition at multiple scales. |
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| Denmark | 1 | 25% |
| Spain | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Members of the public | 4 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 3 | 4% |
| Australia | 2 | 3% |
| Israel | 2 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Denmark | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 68 | 85% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Researcher | 25 | 31% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 14% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 9 | 11% |
| Unknown | 7 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 44 | 55% |
| Environmental Science | 23 | 29% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 1% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 9 | 11% |