Best Practices Working Group
A Working Group dedicated to improving the efficiency of Species At Risk models in Atlantic Canada
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Motivations
- Define goals of best practices
- Improved efficiency
- Better decision making
- Improved products
- Improved conservation outcomes for SAR
- Teaching?
- Define scope of best practices
- SAR focused
- SDM focused?
- All aspects of modelling process?
- Start from resources already available
- E.g., Nature Serve core doc, and papers like Guisan, Antoine, et al. “Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions.” Ecology letters 16.12 (2013): 1424-1435.
- Build and adapt as necessary