Sentence examples for effects of spatial scale from inspiring English sources

We test predictions concerning the effects of spatial scale, survey resolution, as well as the impacts which variations in environmental forcing and survey duration have on the precision of population estimates.

Few research studies have evaluated effects of spatial scale on turkey nest site selection, especially in frequently burned (≤3 year fire-return interval) pine savannas.

Frequently burned pine systems provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the effects of spatial scale on turkey nest site selection because this system is primarily characterized by open, park-like conditions with a predominantly herbaceous understory, which is not characteristic of habitat conditions in many previous studies (e.g., Lehman et al. 2008, Fuller et al. 2013).

In addition, the effects of spatial scale on species area relationships may depend on taxonomic group; for example, responses to habitat area differ between animals and plants [ 3, 19].

To our knowledge, the assessment based on world literature of the effect of spatial scale (i.e. size of the measured area) and sampling depth on the uncertainty of SOC stock measurement in grasslands has never been performed.

We investigate the effect of spatial scale and implementation of scale correction when estimating two different forms of decline in area of occupancy: spatially correlated and spatially uncorrelated declines.

The effect of spatial scale on the processes that influence habitat selection was investigated using GIS as a tool to create and test models at a hierarchical range of scales from 200 m grid-sites level to 20 m quadrats.

However, there was no main effect of invasion on effect size (F1,12 = 3.48, P = 0.08), and no interactive effect of spatial scale and invasion (F2,12 = 2.52, P = 0.11).

Analysis of variance results for plots exposed to warming showed that there was also no significant main effect of spatial scale (F2,12 = 3.05, P = 0.07) or invasion (F1,12 = 1.65, P = 0.21) on effect size.

We then analysed these simulated datasets in the same way as we had analysed our real data (i.e. examining the effect of spatial scale at which this correlation occurred by imposing increasingly fine-scale grids on the study area, calculating rs within each cell of the grid, and then estimating the mean rs at each scale of grid).

We examined the effect of spatial scale at which this correlation occurred by imposing grids of increasing cell size on the study area, calculating rs within each cell of the grid, and then estimating the mean rs at each scale of grid.