From the contents:
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
1. Experts, expert knowledge, and their roles in landscape ecological applications
Ajith H. Perera, C. Ashton Drew, and Chris J. Johnson
2. What is expert knowledge, how is such knowledge gathered, and how do we use it to address questions in landscape ecology?
Marissa F. McBride and Mark A. Burgman
3. Elicitator: a user-friendly, interactive tool to support scenario-based elicitation of expert knowledge
Samantha Low-Choy, Allan James, Justine Murray, and Kerrie Mengersen
4. Eliciting expert knowledge of forest succession using an innovative software tool
Michael Drescher, Lisa J. Buse, Ajith H. Perera, and Marc R. Ouellette
5. Expert knowledge as a foundation for the management of secretive species and their habitatC. Ashton Drew and Jaime A. Collazo
6. Incorporating expert knowledge in decision-support models for avian conservation
Allison T. Moody and James B. Grand
7. An expert-based modeling approach to inform strategic and operational land management decisions for the recovery of woodland caribou
R. Scott McNay
8. Using expert knowledge effectively: lessons from species distribution models for wildlife conservation and management
Chris J. Johnson, Michael Hurley, Eric Rapaport, and Michael Pullinger
9. Exploring expert knowledge of forest succession: an assessment of uncertainty and a comparison with empirical data
Michael Drescher and Ajith H. Perera
10. Assessing knowledge ambiguity in the creation of a model based on expert knowledge and comparison with the results of a landscape succession model in central Labrador
Frederik Doyon, Brian R. Sturtevant, Michael Papaik, Andrew Fall, Brian Miranda, Dan Kneeshaw, Christian Messier, Marie-Josee Fortin, and Patrick James
11. Use of expert knowledge to develop fuel maps for wildland fire management
Robert E. Keane and Matt Reeves
12. Using Bayesian mixture models that combine expert knowledge and GIS data to define ecoregions
Kristen J. Williams, Samantha J. Low-Choy, Wayne Rochester, and Clair Alston
13. Eliciting expert knowledge of ecosystem vulnerability to human stressors to support comprehensive ocean management
Carrie V. Kappel, Benjamin S. Halpern, Kimberly A. Selkoe, and Roger M. Cooke
14. Elicitation and use of expert knowledge in landscape ecological applications: a synthesis
Chris J. Johnson, C. Ashton Drew, and Ajith H. Perera
Index
EAN/ISBN : 9781461410348
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin, Springer, New York
Discussed keywords: Landschaftsökologie
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Perera, Ajith H. - Drew, C. Ashton - Johnson, Chris J.