Publications by authors named "Debby K Fantz"
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- Modern forest management aims to balance social, economic, and ecological goals, with the impact of different management methods on forest ecosystems being a key consideration.
- Two silvicultural systems studied (even and uneven aged) showed varying effects on vertebrate populations over two decades, with birds exhibiting significant changes in abundance, while small mammals and reptiles had more modest but generally positive responses.
- Overall, the study highlights the importance of spatial and temporal scales in understanding how different management practices affect diverse wildlife groups, enabling better-informed conservation decisions.
We present predictor variables and R and Stan code for simulating and analyzing counts of Missouri Ozark herpetofauna in response to three forest management strategies. Our code performs four primary purposes: import predictor variables from spreadsheets; simulate synthetic response variables based on imported predictor variables and user-supplied values for data-generating parameters; format synthetic data for export to Stan; and analyze synthetic data.
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