The best-fit model is the one which minimized out-of-sample prediction error while the conservative model is the one with the fewest predictor variables that came within one standard deviation of the minimum out-of-sample prediction error. The conservative model, as the name implies, provides ...
The interactions between Sierra Nevada with the Great Basin and Mojave Desert biomes during the cyclical glaciations of the Pleistocene created areas of recurrent isolation and secondary contact within and between species. The Sierra Nevada has experienced at least six cyclical episodes of glacial expans...
The effects of salvage logging on biotic communities have been well-studied; however, gaps remain in our understanding. An apparent gap within the post-fire salvage literature is the way salvage is characterized in evaluations: most often as a binary effect (salvaged or unsalvaged). The few stu...