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A geostatistical state-space model of animal densities for stream networks
Hocking, D.J.; Thorson, J.T.; O'Neil, K.; Letcher, B.H. (2018). A geostatistical state-space model of animal densities for stream networks. Ecol. Appl. 28(7): 1782-1796. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.1767
In: Ecological Applications. Ecological Society of America: Tempe, AZ. ISSN 1051-0761; e-ISSN 1939-5582
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Trefwoord
    Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1814) [WoRMS]
Author keywords
    brook trout; dendritic network; detection probability; Gaussian random fields; spatially explicit; spatiotemporal
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  • Hocking, D.J.
  • Thorson, J.T.
  • O'Neil, K.
  • Letcher, B.H.
Abstract
    Population dynamics are often correlated in space and time due to correlations in environmental drivers as well as synchrony induced by individual dispersal. Many statistical analyses of populations ignore potential autocorrelations and assume that survey methods (distance and time between samples) eliminate these correlations, allowing samples to be treated independently. If these assumptions are incorrect, results and therefore inference may be biased and uncertainty underestimated. We developed a novel statistical method to account for spatiotemporal correlations within dendritic stream networks, while accounting for imperfect detection in the surveys. Through simulations, we found this model decreased predictive error relative to standard statistical methods when data were spatially correlated based on stream distance and performed similarly when data were not correlated. We found that increasing the number of years surveyed substantially improved the model accuracy when estimating spatial and temporal correlation coefficients, especially from 10 to 15 yr. Increasing the number of survey sites within the network improved the performance of the nonspatial model but only marginally improved the density estimates in the spatiotemporal model. We applied this model to brook trout data from the West Susquehanna Watershed in Pennsylvania collected over 34 yr from 1981 to 2014. We found the model including temporal and spatiotemporal autocorrelation best described young of the year (YOY) and adult density patterns. YOY densities were positively related to forest cover and negatively related to spring temperatures with low temporal autocorrelation and moderately high spatiotemporal correlation. Adult densities were less strongly affected by climatic conditions and less temporally variable than YOY but with similar spatiotemporal correlation and higher temporal autocorrelation.
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