Conference and Workshop on Modeling Land-Use Land-Cover Change and Species Distribution
January 11-13, 2005
The Eco-Informatics Centre recently organized a Conference and Workshop on
Modeling Land-Use Land-Cover Change and Species Distribution in Bangalore
from January 11-13, 2005.
This intensive workshop brought together individuals and agencies active in
ecological research, land-use planning, and conservation in India to provide
an exchange of ideas and training on the technical aspects of land-use change
and habitat modeling. The resource people included Prof. K. N. Ganeshaiah,
ATREE and University of Agricultural Sciences, Dr. J. Krishnaswamy, ATREE,
Dr. Shaily Menon, Grand Valley State University, Dr. Robert Gilmore Pontius
Jr, Clark University and Dr. M. Irfan Ullah, ATREE.
Concepts covered under LUCC modeling
- Reasons for LUCC models
- Uses of LUCC models
- Mechanics of LUCC models
- Evaluation of LUCC models
- Reasons to compare maps
- Measures of Quantity and Location for pattern recognition
- Comparisons between two Categorical variables
- Comparisons between Real variables and Boolean variables
- Importance of Scale
- Consideration of Error
Concepts covered under species distribution modeling
- Biodiversity informatics
- Ecological niche modeling using genetic algorithms and ENFA (Ecological Niche Factor Analysis)
- Errors (overprediction or commission, underprediction or omission)
- Habitat suitability maps
- Ecogeographical variables
- Marginality and Tolerance factors
- Applications of species distribution modeliny
Literature
Available at www.clarku.edu/~rpontius
- R G Pontius Jr, D Huffaker and K Denman. 2004. Useful techniques of validation for spatially explicit
land-change models. Ecological Modelling 179(4) p. 445-461.
- R G Pontius Jr, E Shusas and M McEachern. 2004. Detecting important categorical land changes while
accounting for persistence. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 101(2-3) p. 251-268.
- R G Pontius Jr and K Batchu. 2003. Using the relative operating characteristic to quantify certainty
in prediction of location of land cover change in India. Transactions in GIS 7(4) p. 467-484.
- R G Pontius Jr. 2002. Statistical methods to partition effects of quantity and location during
comparison of categorical maps at multiple resolutions. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
68(10) p. 1041-1049.
- R G Pontius Jr, J Cornell and C Hall. 2001. Modeling the spatial pattern of land-use change with
GEOMOD2: application and validation for Costa Rica. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 85(1-3) p. 191-203.
- R G Pontius Jr and L Schneider. 2001. Land-use change model validation by a ROC method for the
Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 85(1-3) p. 239-248.
- S Menon, R G Pontius Jr, J Rose, M Khan, and K Bawa. 2001. Identifying conservation priority
areas in the tropics: a land-use change modeling approach. Conservation Biology 15(2), p. 501-512.
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