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What is a density surface model? David L Miller Why model abundance spatially? Use more information Greater explanatory power Spatially explicit estimates (of abundance and uncertainty) Variance reduction Extra information Extra


  1. What is a density surface model? David L Miller

  2. Why model abundance spatially? Use more information Greater explanatory power Spatially explicit estimates (of abundance and uncertainty) Variance reduction

  3. Extra information

  4. Extra information - depth

  5. Extra information - depth NB this only shows segments where counts > 0

  6. Extra information - SST

  7. Extra information - SST NB this only shows segments where counts > 0

  8. What is going on here?

  9. "You should model that"

  10. Modelling outputs Abundance and uncertainty Arbitrary areas Numeric values Maps Extrapolation (with caution!) Covariate effects count/sample as function of covars

  11. Modelling requirements Account for effort Flexible Explicit spatial terms Interpretable effects Predictions over an arbitrary area Theoretical basis for model validation Include our detectability information

  12. Accounting for effort

  13. Effort Have transects Variation in counts and covars along them Want a sample unit w/ minimal variation “Segments” – approx. square chunks of effort

  14. Chopping up transects Physeter catodon by Noah Schlottman

  15. Flexible, interpretable effects

  16. Smooth response

  17. Explicit spatial effects

  18. Predictions

  19. Predictions over an arbitrary area Don't want to be restricted to predict on segments Predict within survey area Extrapolate outside (with caution) Working on a grid of cells

  20. Detection information

  21. Including detection information Two options: adjust areas to account for effective effort use Horvitz-Thompson estimates as response

  22. Adjusting areas ^ j Area of each segment A j and use A j p (2-D) Equivalent to effective strip width ^ ^ μ = w p Response is counts per segment “Adjusting for effort” “Count model”

  23. Horvitz-Thompson estimates Estimate H-T abundance per segment Effort is area of each segment “Estimated abundance” per segment s i ^ j n = ∑ ^ i p i in segment j

  24. Detectability and covariates 2 covariate “levels” in detection function “Observer”/“observation” – change within transect “Segment” – change between segments “Estimated abundance” lets us use observer-level covariates in detection function “Count model” only lets us use segment-level covariates

  25. When to use each approach? Generally “nicer” to adjust effort Keep response (counts) close to what was observed Unless you want observation-level covariates These can make a big difference!

  26. Availability/perception/etc ^ Availability & perception bias via p ^ availability p ^ perception p ^ detection ^ p p = Not going to cover this much here See bibliography for more info

  27. DSM flow diagram

  28. Spatial models

  29. Abundance as a function of covariates Two approaches to model abundance Explicit spatial models When: Good coverage, fixed area “Habitat” models (no explicit spatial terms) When: Poorer coverage, extrapolation We'll cover both approaches here

  30. Data requirements

  31. What do we need? Need to “link” data Distance data/detection function Segment data Observation data to link segments to detections

  32. Jason demo of segmenting etc Show each table Their relations Spatial representation

  33. Recap Model counts or estimated abundace The effort is accounted for differently Flexible models are good Incorporate detectability 2 tables + detection function needed

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