Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Accuracy and Scale

J. M. Scott, J. H. Heglund, M. L. Morrison, J. B. Haufler, M. G. Raphael, W. A. Wall, F. B. Samson (eds.). 2002. Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Accuracy and Scale. Island Press, Washington, D.C., 868 pp. ISBN 1-55963-787-0, price (hardcover), $95.00. In biodiversity conservation and management of natural resources, from policy decisions under the Convention for Biological Diversity to the implementation of national and local legislation, there is hardly a project where information on species occurrence is not needed. But animal and plant species are mobile, ranges shift over time, and individual animals move within their range and on a variety of scales. Representing complex ecological patterns…