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ArticleBiology letters2022

Effects of occupancy estimation on abundance-occupancy relationships.

Cleber Ten Caten, Lauren A Holian, Tad Dallas

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Article in Biology letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Cleber Ten CatenDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29205, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3788-3508
Lauren A HolianDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29205, USA.
Tad DallasDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29205, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3328-9958

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Abundance-occupancy relationships predict that species that occupy more sites are also more locally abundant, where occupancy is usually estimated following the assumption that species can occupy all sampled sites. Here we use the National Ecological Observatory Network small-mammal data to assess whether this assumption affects abundance-occupancy relationships. We estimated occupancy considering all sampled sites (traditional occupancy) and only the sites found within the species geographic range (spatial occupancy) and realized environmental niche (environmental occupancy). We found that when occupancy was estimated considering only sites possible for the species to colonize (spatial and environmental occupancy) weaker abundance-occupancy relationships were observed. This shows that the assumption that the species can occupy all sampled sites directly affects the assessment of abundance-occupancy relationships. Estimating occupancy considering only sites that are possible for the species to colonize will consequently lead to a more robust assessment of abundance-occupancy relationships.

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EcosystemMammalsAnimalsabundance–occupancyenvironmental nichegeographic rangenational ecological observatory network

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PMID35673875
PMCPMC9174727

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