Future analyses of potential focal species distributions at finer spatial scales, e.g., to assess the suitability of introduction sites or to delineate protected areas, would greatly benefit from incorporating landscape- or regional-scale factors such as land use, topography, geology, vegetation type, available prey populations and human population density.
In addition, the sensitiveness of human experience for quantity is discussed to examine the suitability of the introduction of information entropy.
Here we assess the projected climatic suitability of proposed North American introduction areas, the American southwest and Great Plains, for four focal species from Africa and Asia (Table 2) using pseudo-presence training data from modern vs. historical native ranges and Maxent [41], a maximum entropy model.
This study has demonstrated the suitability of salicylaldehydes for automated introduction to solid phase by the inclusion of an imine formation/reduction cycle.
Also, during the design of a mobile access network, it can provide useful information on the suitability of a topology for the introduction of sleep modes.
The suitability of an area for the introduction of ASF from wildlife reservoirs (objective 1) was therefore considered using the hierarchical approach shown in Figure 1.
The bushpigs and giant forest hogs show a similar pattern of suitability weightings, with habitat suitability considered to be the most important factor in determining the suitability of an area for repeated introduction of ASF from these species, followed by pig density with relatively minor contributions from tick habitat suitability.
For objective 1, constraints on the suitability of an area for the introduction of ASF from each wild suid species were considered to be those areas in which warthogs, bushpigs or giant forest hogs were presumed to be entirely absent (i.e. outside the species' usual range).
The southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Rwanda, eastern Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, parts of Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and the north-east of South Africa all appear to have areas of relatively high potential suitability for repeated introduction of ASF to domestic pigs from sylvatic cycles.
The predicted distribution of areas with high suitability for repeated introduction of ASF from wildlife reservoirs and for sustained transmission within pig populations also supports the anecdotal distribution of sylvatic and domestic pig cycles identified by a number of authors [ 1, 2, 5, 44].
Ecosocial analysis, therefore, should guide policy makers in the third and final step, in which the suitability of given ecological areas for the introduction of GM crops is evaluated.
