I use citizen science datasets to model species distributions.
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The advent of large-scale citizen science datasets has now made it possible to carry out a wide range of research across a number of species, including mapping species distributions and prioritizing conservation efforts. Using data from the world’s largest citizen science database, eBird, I study how the environment shapes species behavior, habitat use and its distribution.
All code and analyses can be accessed by visiting this GitHub repository.
We use data from eBird to understand how climate and land cover drives bird distributions. Recently, we found that temperature seasonality is a key driver of species occupancy for forest and generalist bird species in the Western Ghats.