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SUMMARY:Statistics Seminar - Emma Gardner & Claudia Acerini (UK Centre fo
 r Ecology & Hydrology)
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DESCRIPTION:Title: Co-creating mechanistic models to increase understandi
 ng of species’ ecologies and support biodiversity-inclusive decision-mak
 ing\n\nAbstract: In the UK\, efforts are being made to promote ecosystem
  restoration and nature recovery across all policy scales – from nationa
 l and local government through to grassroots community action. New incen
 tives to create and connect habitats are becoming available\, but decisi
 on-makers often still lack the knowledge\, tools and confidence to make 
 biodiversity-inclusive landscape decisions. As a result\, we have co-dev
 eloped a family of mechanistic\, process-based models (*4pop) that simul
 ate landscape use by birds\, bats\, reptiles\, amphibians and pollinator
 s\, to help gather\, share and test understanding of species ecologies a
 nd predict how they might be affected by landscape changes.\n\nGiven lan
 dcover data\, the models predict spatially-explicit relative abundance b
 y simulating home-range foraging\, reproduction\, dispersal of offspring
  and mortality. The models are co-developed by researchers\, conservatio
 n NGOs and volunteer surveyors\, parameterised with a combination of lit
 erature data and expert opinion\, and validated against observational da
 tasets collected across Great Britain. They produce high resolution (10m
 ) outputs at national extent\, enabling both local and national decision
 -makers to explore species’ responses to landscape change using the same
  model.\n\nWe will outline the collaborative process of building these ‘
 community models’. Using our latest bat4pop model as a case study exampl
 e\, we will explain how observational datasets are used to calibrate and
  validate these mechanistic models\, and how such work can provide evide
 nce of the conservation challenges species face – in this case\, demonst
 rating the limiting effects of light pollution on bat species abundance 
 and distributions. We’ll conclude by showing some examples of the use of
  these models by decision-makers and share what this has taught us about
  the role such models can play in supporting real-world decision-making 
 processes.\n\nSpeakers: Emma Gardner and Claudia Acerini are Quantitativ
 e Ecologists based at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology\, whose rese
 arch focuses on ecological modelling of species responses to landscape c
 hange.  \n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Frank Adams 2\, Alan Turing Building\, Manchester
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