June 2016 Project Update

Post date: 17-Jun-2016 19:49:08

I've now created a more precise set of habitat grids after spotting some errors in the baseline model versions. I'm currently testing the impact of the new grids using the baseline species presences from January this year. So far the changes are relatively minor, the most noticeable impact is a slightly increased probability of finding bats in the urbanised areas (baseline model had a few "holes" assigned to open land instead of urban, and this had slightly biased the training of the model for some species). Once these tests are complete, I'll release a revised baseline set of model data at the end of June that will also include the latest survey data. Watch this space!