Expert Knowledge and Its Application in Landscape Ecology

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

1. Experts, expert knowledge, and their roles in landscape ecological applications

Ajith H. Perera, C. Ashton Drew, and Chris J. Johnson

2. What is expert knowledge, how is such knowledge gathered, and how do we use it to address questions in landscape ecology?

Marissa F. McBride and Mark A. Burgman

3. Elicitator: a user-friendly, interactive tool to support scenario-based elicitation of expert knowledge

Samantha Low-Choy, Allan James, Justine Murray, and Kerrie Mengersen

4. Eliciting expert knowledge of forest succession using an innovative software tool

Michael Drescher, Lisa J. Buse, Ajith H. Perera, and Marc R. Ouellette

C. Ashton Drew and Jaime A. Collazo

6. Incorporating expert knowledge in decision-support models for avian conservation

Allison T. Moody and James B. Grand

7. An expert-based modeling approach to inform strategic and operational land management decisions for the recovery of woodland caribou

R. Scott McNay

8. Using expert knowledge effectively: lessons from species distribution models for wildlife conservation and management

Chris J. Johnson, Michael Hurley, Eric Rapaport, and Michael Pullinger

9. Exploring expert knowledge of forest succession: an assessment of uncertainty and a comparison with empirical data

Michael Drescher and Ajith H. Perera

10. Assessing knowledge ambiguity in the creation of a model based on expert knowledge and comparison with the results of a landscape succession model in central Labrador

Frédérik Doyon, Brian R. Sturtevant, Michael Papaik, Andrew Fall, Brian Miranda, Dan Kneeshaw, Christian Messier, Marie-Josée Fortin, and Patrick James

11. Use of expert knowledge to develop fuel maps for wildland fire management

Robert E. Keane and Matt Reeves

12. Using Bayesian mixture models that combine expert knowledge and GIS data to define ecoregions

Kristen J. Williams, Samantha J. Low-Choy, Wayne Rochester, and Clair Alston

13. Eliciting expert knowledge of ecosystem vulnerability to human stressors to support comprehensive ocean management

Carrie V. Kappel, Benjamin S. Halpern, Kimberly A. Selkoe, and Roger M. Cooke

14. Elicitation and use of expert knowledge in landscape ecological applications: a synthesis

Chris J. Johnson, C. Ashton Drew, and Ajith H. Perera

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