The importance of distance variables is such that models using just distance to roost and to water, could explain as much as 86% and 73% of the probability of occurrence of M. schreibersii and R. mehelyi, respectively (Figure 3).
This idea is motivated by the fact that in many systems information about nearby regions is more relevant and important than far away regions with progressively increasing importance as distance decreases.
"Moreover, while China's spillovers initially only mattered for neighboring countries, the importance of distance has diminished over time," they wrote in a working paper.
These findings underscore the importance of distance and weight-based heterogeneity in cortical architecture and processing.
Similarly, the experts, except for the English regional planners and public authorities (0.32), were in agreement regarding the importance of 'Distance from flooding areas' (average 0.63).
It is suggested that the effects may be explained as cost reducing strategies on behalf of consumers which would lead to an increasing importance of distance to nearest facilities/destinations.
The paper is designed to give the reader an outline that is useful for understanding the importance of distance, as a metric concept, and its implications when compositional (geochemical) data are managed from a statistical point of view in a given sample space.
Stiglitz emphasized the importance of "distance between the regulators and the regulated".
The importance of distance to water to a bat presumably depends on its flight characteristics and on how often it needs to drink while foraging.
Our main objective was to assess the importance of distance variables as predictors in the modelling of bat foraging habitat in heterogeneous landscapes, using as models two bat species of conservation concern, Miniopterus schreibersii and Rhinolophus mehelyi.
