Building Bridges for Wildlife: Modeling the Richness of Human-Wildlife Encounters Over 15 Years of Urban Growth in the Sky Islands

Gatela, Sierrane Grace S.

dc.contributor.author	Gatela, Sierrane Grace S.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-05-07T16:30:22Z	en
dc.date.available	2016-05-07T16:30:22Z	en
dc.date.issued	2016	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10150/608603	en
dc.description	Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone Project	en
dc.description.abstract	This study analyzes 15 years of wildlife tracking data across more than 40 transects in the Sky Islands surrounding landscape to investigate how human-wildlife encounters may respond to a decade of land development. The average detection of species per visit (ADPV), the quantification for human-wildlife encounters and indicator of species richness, was calculated for each transect across two sample periods 2001-2011 and 2011-2015. ArcMap was used to visualize the ADPV across sampling sites in the Sky Islands region. The p-value was then calculated to determine whether there was a significant difference between the ADPV of all species and of focal species before and after 2011. The results concluded there was no significant difference and the null hypothesis was accepted.
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	The University of Arizona.	en
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dc.subject	Built Environment	en
dc.subject	Land Cover	en
dc.subject	Wildlife Tracking	en
dc.subject	Wildlife conservation	en
dc.subject	Biodiversity	en
dc.subject	Habitat Fragmentation	en
dc.subject	Land use planning	en
dc.title	Building Bridges for Wildlife: Modeling the Richness of Human-Wildlife Encounters Over 15 Years of Urban Growth in the Sky Islands	en_US
dc.type	text	en
dc.contributor.department	College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture	en_US
thesis.degree.level	Bachelor of Science	en
thesis.degree.name	Sustainable Built Environments	en
dc.description.collectioninformation	This item is part of the Sustainable Built Environments collection. For more information, contact http://sbe.arizona.edu.	en
dc.contributor.mentor	Perkl, Ryan	en
dc.contributor.instructor	Iuliano, Joey	en
refterms.dateFOA	2018-06-05T21:24:22Z
html.description.abstract	This study analyzes 15 years of wildlife tracking data across more than 40 transects in the Sky Islands surrounding landscape to investigate how human-wildlife encounters may respond to a decade of land development. The average detection of species per visit (ADPV), the quantification for human-wildlife encounters and indicator of species richness, was calculated for each transect across two sample periods 2001-2011 and 2011-2015. ArcMap was used to visualize the ADPV across sampling sites in the Sky Islands region. The p-value was then calculated to determine whether there was a significant difference between the ADPV of all species and of focal species before and after 2011. The results concluded there was no significant difference and the null hypothesis was accepted.