Armadillo Mapper: A Case Study of an Online Application to Update Estimates of Species' Potential Distributions

作者：Feng Xiao^*; Castro Mariela C; Linde Evan; Papes Monica

来源：Tropical Conservation Science, 2017, 10: 194008291772413.

DOI：10.1177/1940082917724133

• Armadillo
• Cryptophractus pilosus
• Dasypus pilosus
• ecological niche model
• Maxent
• Shiny
• species distribution model

Ecological niche modeling (ENM) uses species' known occurrences and environmental variables to estimate potential geographic distributions. The potential distribution of a species can be updated and refined after new occurrences are collected; therefore, we developed an online application (Armadillo Mapper [AM]) that automatically updates the ecological niche model for the hairy long-nosed armadillo (Dasypus pilosus) with new observations and provides a revised potential distribution map. AM can be used by researchers and conservation practitioners without a deep knowledge of geographic information system (GIS) techniques and ENM. Here, we introduce this online application and demonstrate the use of our application with a new observation of D. pilosus. AM has the potential to be extended to other species and to bridge the gap between distributional knowledge synthesized in a computer lab and conservation efforts carried out in the field.

• 出版日期2017-8-3