Jason J. Roberts

TL;DR: Of high importance is the identification of a widely applicable set of transferability metrics, with appropriate tools to quantify the sources and impacts of prediction uncertainty under novel conditions.

TL;DR: MGET is developed, an extensible collection of powerful, easy-to-use, open-source geoprocessing tools that ecologists can invoke from ArcGIS without resorting to computer programming.

TL;DR: An approach that quantifies geographic patterns of connectivity from demographically relevant to evolutionarily significant levels across a range of species is described and geographically explicit models of marine connectivity that define dispersal corridors, barriers, and the emergent structure of marine populations are created.

TL;DR: This work integrated 23 years of aerial and shipboard cetacean surveys, linked them to environmental covariates obtained from remote sensing and ocean models, and built habitat-based density models for 26 species and 3 multi-species guilds using distance sampling methodology, revealing high regional differences in small delphinoid densities.

TL;DR: It is found that although there are several areas of great isolation in the tropical oceans, most reef habitats are within the reach of most species given their PLDs and a global ocean circulation model was developed to quantify the connectivity among tropical reefs relative to the potential dispersal conferred by PLD.