An Introduction to Using GIS in Marine Biology: Supplementary Workbook Four: Investigating Home Ranges of Individual Animals
Language: English
Published by LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2014
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Über den AutorrnrnDr. Colin D. MacLeod has twenty years experience as a marine biologist working with whales and dolphins, seabirds and squid. He has also spent over a decade working with geographic information systems (GIS) and teaching ma.
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- Title
- An Introduction to Using GIS in Marine Biology: Supplementary Workbook Four: Investigating Home Ranges of Individual Animals
- Author
- Macleod, Colin D.
- Publisher
- LIGHTNING SOURCE INC
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0956897452
- ISBN 13
- 9780956897459
This book consists of five exercises covering the practical use of GIS in marine biology using ERSI’s ArcGIS® 10.2 GIS software. These exercises are based around using GIS to investigate the home ranges of individual animals. They range from creating minimum convex polygons (MCPs) and kernel density estimates (KDEs) to comparing the home ranges of different individuals in a population. The exercises are designed to be followed in the order they are presented, and work with a specific data set which can be downloaded for free.
Working through these five exercises will help the novice GIS user obtain experience in investigating the home ranges of individual animals in a GIS-based environment, and so develop their GIS skills. Unlike most other GIS tutorials, this information is specifically presented in a marine biological context and all the exercises use real data from a marine biological study. Therefore, these exercises are more likely to provide the kind of experience in using GIS that marine biologists will find useful and applicable to their own research.
These exercises are presented in the same easy-to-follow flow diagram-based format first introduced in the 'How To...' section of 'An Introduction To Using GIS In Marine Biology'. They are accompanied by images which show the user how their GIS project should look as they progress through the exercises, allowing them to compare their own work to the expected results.
This is part of the PSLS series of books which use Task-Oriented Learning (TOL) to teach the practical application of research skills to the life sciences. This involves demonstrating how these skills can be used in the specific circumstances in which they are likely to be required rather than concentrating on teaching theoretical frameworks or on teaching skills in a generic or abstract manner. By seeing how the similar processes are used to achieve a variety of different goals within a specific field, it becomes easier for the reader to identify the general rules behind the practical application of these processes and, therefore, to transfer them to novel situations they may encounter in the future.
Table Of Contents:
Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. How To Use The ArcGIS® 10.2 Software User Interface.
3. Exercise One: Estimating The Home Range Of An Individual Animal Using A Minimum Convex Polygon (MCP).
4. Exercise Two: Estimating The Home Range Of An Individual Animal Using A Kernel Density Estimate (KDE) In An Open Environment.
5. Exercise Three: Estimating The Home Range Of An Individual Animal Using A Kernel Density Estimate (KDE) In An Environment With Barriers.
6. Exercise Four: Comparing The Home Ranges Of Different Individuals In A Population
7. Exercise Five: Investigating How Many Individuals Use Each Location Within A Study Area.
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