I am looking for best practices derived from GIS related projects that have resulted in regenaration of wildlife populations (birds or/and mammals) in nature. Is there a standard methodology or just the activities and work packages of the project that resulted to that cause?
Dear Simon, thank you very much for your significant information and contribution. Currently I am waiting the results of a research proposal that I have submitted to, so as to develop a model for a long term and in different scales, that's why I am looking for alternative/similar projects. My theoretical model, based on ArcInfo/ArcGIS, dealed with Multicriterial Analysis and Geospatial Statistics showed significant results and I am waiting to see if it has the same reflections with real-life data and recordings so as to approach larger areas (at international level) of implementationin the future.
Many congrats on your work accomplishments!
Can I suggest you a book?
GIS and Spatial Analysis in Veterinary Science, P. Durr and A. Gatrell CABI Publishing
another useful book is this one: GIS, Environmental Modeling and Engineering, Allan Brimicombe, CRC Press
Dear Francesca, thank you very much. These books seem both very interesting to me and hopefully, very helpful. Thank you indeed!
"I am looking for best practices derived from GIS related projects that have resulted in regenaration of wildlife populations (birds or/and mammals) in nature"
if instead of regeneration You ask for planning/monitoring and instead of birds or/and mammals ask for amphibians or/and reptiles... than the answer to Your question is: yes, there is!
Dear Zsolt, thank you for your contibution and briefing. It's good to know about your expertise in this field and in case of any needs on that issues I will let you know. However, I am not so sure (as long as my interest is related with Organic Agriculture and GIS) at what proportion is this presence of populations of amphibians or/and reptiles associated with biodiversity and the sustainability of organic agricultural plots in the field? Of course there is some kind of relationship but I am not so sure if we could use their nummeric data and spatial allocation as a creditable spatial indicator of good agro-practices in favor of the wildlife.
They (mphibians or/and reptiles) could be associated with near riparian agroecosystems of course, but we have to approach their level of spatial interference and ecistence in nature at larger scales.
Any additional comments are appreciated.
Thank you Simon very much for your clarification and briefing.
Honestly, although I was aware about the susceptibility and interlinkages of amphibians or/and reptiles with organic agricultural plots and their contribution, I didn't know the level, so as to regard them as agroenvironmental sustainability indicators, so I appreciate very much your information towards that issue.
However, as I have answered to Zsolt, I was expecting amphibians or/and reptiles to be useful on that cause, especially within riparian agroecosystems but, at what proportion and for which territories when we'll trying to approach that issue in larger scales? As a matter of fact, in order to approach larger territories (more than 500 sq. km) through sustainable indicators - as regards interlinkages of biodiversity with ecosystem variables - I expect to get better results by using spatial patterns of biotopes of key-species that are occupying larger territories (like brown bear, wolf, etc.) instead of amphibians or/and reptiles. Of course, the last ones could be used with greater perspectives and correlation results when we approach smaller territories but, after your inpout, I will try to look on related publication so as to get additional information, starting from the paper that you've proposed to me and I really thank you for that).
Finally (and this is probably going to be my next question to the scientific community of ResearchGate, and beyond) which kind of species should be used as spatial indicators so as to approach better results and estimations as regards quality of agroenvironmental patterns with ecosystems and, at what scale?
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