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Modeling Relative Habitat Suitability And Movement Behavior Of Invasive Burmese Pythons In Southern Florida, Holly E. Mutascio
Modeling Relative Habitat Suitability And Movement Behavior Of Invasive Burmese Pythons In Southern Florida, Holly E. Mutascio
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Invasive Burmese pythons are established in the Everglades and are altering the ecology of southern Florida. Their distribution in Florida is expanding northward into more urbanized and fragmented habitats. An understanding of the suitability of habitat throughout southern Florida for Burmese pythons and their interaction with Florida’s landscapes through movement behavior is vital for predicting the python’s ability to persist in habitats outside of the Everglades. In this thesis, we use ecological modeling to predict habitat suitability and to investigate personality-dependent dispersal.
First, we used presence-only ecological niche modeling with correction for sampling bias to identify the key landscape variables …
The Coal River Basin: A 2009 Water Budget Study, R. Dale Biller
The Coal River Basin: A 2009 Water Budget Study, R. Dale Biller
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The Coal River Watershed covers an area of some 890 square miles in southern West Virginia of which 863 square miles was investigated in this study. Both online and field data were collected over period from January 13, 2009 to January 13, 2010. The basin was studied as a closed system having an input, which was precipitation, and outputs, rainfall interception, evapotranspiration, and stream discharge that was separated into base flow and overland flow.
The effective rainfall of the watershed was calculated using the Thiessen polygon method to be 42 inches for the year, 48% of that water discharged by …