Taal Levi, Glenn H. Shepard, Jr., Julia Ohl-Schacherer, Christopher C. Wilmers, Carlos A. Peres, and Douglas W. Yu. 2011. Spatial tools for modeling the sustainability of subsistence hunting in tropical forests. Ecological Applications 21:1802–1818.


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Model implementation with Excel spreadsheet, Matlab, and Python script for ArcGIS.
Ecological Archives
A021-081-S1
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Author(s)

Taal Levi
Department of Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
489 Nat Sci II, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
email: trlevi@ucsc.edu

Glenn H. Shepard Jr.
Department of Anthropology
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Belém, PA 66077-830 Brazil
email: gshepardjr@gmail.com

Julia Ohl-Schacherer
Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation (CEEC)
Schools of Environmental and Biological Sciences
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, Norfolk NR47TJ UK
email: juliaohl@gmx.de

Christopher C. Wilmers
Department of Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz
445 ISB, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
email: cwilmers@ucsc.edu

Carlos A. Peres
Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation (CEEC)
Schools of Environmental and Biological Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich, Norfolk NR47TJ UK
email: c.peres@uea.ac.uk

Douglas W. Yu
Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation (CEEC)
Schools of Environmental and Biological Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich, Norfolk NR47TJ UK
email: dougwyu@gmail.com

File list

analytical_spreadsheet_solver.xls*
multisettlement_model_solver.m
Hunting_Mapper.zip -
contains:
- Hunting Mapper.tbx
- monkeyscriptSteadyState.py
- monkeyscript.py

Description

analytical_spreadsheet_solver.xls* implements the simplest single settlement model in Microsoft Excel. It is designed to be easy to use on a platform familiar to non-technical users.

multisettlement_model_solver.m is commented Matlab Code to produce multisettlement maps, cumulative distribution functions, and calculate the global and local catch per unit effort.

Hunting_Mapper.zip is a zip file containing ArcGIS toolbox extension and the required python scriptsWindows executable. The toolbox is called, Hunting Mapper.tbx, and it can call two scripts. One script, monkeyscriptSteadyState.py, implements the multisettlement steady state model, which makes it suitable for large spatial and temporal scales. The other script, monkeyscript.py, implements the numerical multisettlement model with diffusive source-sink dynamics. This model is computationally expensive, and it requires the user to input the annual population data for evey settlement. See Appendix E for further instructions.

* Please note: ESA cannot guarantee the accessibility of Excel files into the future due to the proprietary nature of the Excel format.