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Assessing Houston’S Forested Habitat, Justin Bower, Jeremy Burkes, Kelli Ondracek
Assessing Houston’S Forested Habitat, Justin Bower, Jeremy Burkes, Kelli Ondracek
Cities and the Environment (CATE)
The City of Houston has a total of 380 parks totaling 35,742 acres. Approximately 16,000 of those acres are forested habitat, each totaling over an acre in size. A method for prioritizing and assessing these areas was first established in 2017 to determine management needs and funding requirements. Prior to this time, the priority had been given to street trees through a comprehensive inventory to support tree ordinance mitigation requirements. Additionally, in 2015 the US Forest Service collected data on the tree canopy cover and species composition of trees within the City of Houston, including both natural and urbanized areas.
Incorporating Physiology Into Species Distribution Models Moderates The Projected Impact Of Warming On Mediterranean Marine Species, Inbal Gamliel, Yehezkel Buba, Tamar Guy-Haim, Tal Garval, Demian A. Willette, Gil Rilov, Jonathan Belmaker
Incorporating Physiology Into Species Distribution Models Moderates The Projected Impact Of Warming On Mediterranean Marine Species, Inbal Gamliel, Yehezkel Buba, Tamar Guy-Haim, Tal Garval, Demian A. Willette, Gil Rilov, Jonathan Belmaker
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Species distribution models (SDMs) correlate species occurrences with environmental predictors, and can be used to forecast distributions under future climates. SDMs have been criticized for not explicitly including the physiological processes underlying the species response to the environment. Recently, new methods have been suggested to combine SDMs with physiological estimates of performance (physiology-SDMs). In this study, we compare SDM and physiology-SDM predictions for select marine species in the Mediterranean Sea, a region subjected to exceptionally rapid climate change. We focused on six species and created physiology-SDMs that incorporate physiological thermal performance curves from experimental data with species occurrence records. We …