eleDistribution

Multi-scale modeling for conservation and connectivity of African savanna elephant in Tanzania.

Overview

The repo contains documents and scripts for habitat and habitat connectivity analysis of African savanna elephants in Tanzania. The workflow has three parts:

1. Habitat suitability modeling at the coarse scales
2. Habitat suitability modeling at the fine scale
3. Habitat connectivity analysis

Repo structure

The main things are documented as R markdown files in folder docs, within which functions stored in folder scripts may be called.

Data

All data and results are available via Open Science Framework (OSF): https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5FWH4.

Funding

This package is part of project "Combining Spatially-explicit Simulation of Animal Movement and Earth Observation to Reconcile Agriculture and Wildlife Conservation". This project is funded by NASA FINESST program (award number: 80NSSC20K1640) and U.S. National Science Foundation (award number: 2416164).

Reference

Song, L., Frazier, A. E., Estes, A. B., & Estes, L. D. (2025). A multi-scale approach for integrating species distribution models with landscape connectivity to identify critical linkage zones for African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana). Ecological Modelling, 507, 111198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111198