HABITAT ANALYSIS HABITAT ANALYSIS INCORPORATING INCORPORATING

NOMENCLATURAL AND NOMENCLATURAL AND TAXONOMIC INFORMATIONTAXONOMIC INFORMATION

Daphne G. FautinEcology & Evolutionary Biology

Natural History MuseumUniversity of Kansas

1: HABITAT ANALYSIS1: HABITAT ANALYSIS

PrinciplesOne application -- KGSMapper

2:2: The difference that NOMENCLATURAL NOMENCLATURAL AND TAXONOMIC INFORMATIONAND TAXONOMIC INFORMATIONcan make to such analyses

With gratitude for grants from NSF (DEB 99-78106, OCE 00-03970), NBII, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and to individuals too numerous to mention other than Adorian Ardelean, Jeremy Bartley, Asif Iqbal, and Suman Kansakar

Distribution of the sea anemone Heteractis aurora

Fautin and Allen 1992

Distribution of the sea anemone Heteractis aurora

Fautin and Allen 1992

OBIS: www.iobis.org

Distribution of the sea anemone Heteractis aurora

Fautin and Allen 1992

OBIS: www.iobis.org

Abstract; over-represents

Concrete; under-represents

Guinotte et al. Marine Ecology Progress Series – ?Thursday

ASSOCIATES ORGANISM OCCURRENCES WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Calculates where habitat is similar and therefore where animals of this species could occur

Displays valuesof 52 environmentalparameters(mean, sd)

to infer where else the species might NATURALLY occur

POTENTIAL NATURAL RANGE – where to do field work

to infer where the species might UNnaturally occur

POTENTIAL INVASIVE RANGE

maximum and minimum SST, minimum depth

allows investigation of ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS that control species distribution

Taxonomy and nomenclature potentially confound such analyses

maximum and minimum SST, minimum depth

By taxon: Inferred suitableHabitat for the speciesHeteractis aurora

By name: Inferred suitable habitat for those that have been referred to as Radianthus simplex

using symbols of a different color for

each synonymous name. Can be used

for investigating whether a synonymy

is justified. And occurrences of homonymous

species are not mapped.

MAPS RECORDEDOCCURRENCES OF THAT SPECIES

KGSMapperallows editingpoints – so theremainder can be analyzed

Far from confounding an analysis of probable distribution, appropriate use

of taxonomic and nomenclatural knowledge can enhance it

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Distribution of the sea anemone Heteractis aurora

Fautin and Allen 1992

OBIS: www.iobis.org