Salamander Expert Elicitation, Trout-Salamander Interactions Climate Model, Trout-Salamander Decision Analysis
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Expert elicitation for multiple stream-salamanders (Lead: Katz). Milestone: salamander-elicitation (for setting timeline and tasks). Elicit parmaeter values and model beleifs from 20+ experts. Identify concensus and disagreement among experts. Predict species-specific salamander occupancy/distribution across NE/salamander ranges and compare to exisiting maps/models. Sensitivity analysis for each salamander species.
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Trout-Salamander co-occurrence with uncertainty (Lead: Hocking). Milestone: co-occurrence (for setting timeline and tasks). Forecast co-occurrence and propogate climate, structural, and parameter uncertainty in both fish and salamanader models. 100 randomly selected subwatersheds across the NE. Sensitivity analysis of both fish and salamanders.
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Land-protection optimization decision model for fish and salamanders (Leads: Katz and Hocking). Evaluate optimal land protection strategies for co-occurrance under uncertainty (reduce complexity of co-occurrence model). Protection from forest loss (purchasing land within 30-m riparian or upland). Two main mgt-relevant hypotheses: protecting upland is better, protecting near-stream is better. 100 randomly selected subwatersheds across the NE.
Currently, have all three parts of the project in one repository. It should be fine having multiple R Projects in different subfolders, but if this causes a problem we can break this into 3 separate git repos.