{"id":9815,"date":"2023-02-02T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2023-03-01T18:56:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:56:46","slug":"modeling-species-populations-in-response-to-vegetation-change-the-case-of-the-florida-scrub-jay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/2023\/02\/02\/modeling-species-populations-in-response-to-vegetation-change-the-case-of-the-florida-scrub-jay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling a species&#8217; population response to vegetation change: the case of the Florida scrub jay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><h2 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Modeling a species&#8217; population response to vegetation change: the case of the Florida scrub jay<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-post-author has-small-font-size\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\">Sarah Chisholm<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-02T15:14:31+00:00\">February 2, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Scrub-Jay.jpeg\" alt=\"Florida scrub jay\" class=\"wp-image-9805\" width=\"944\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Scrub-Jay.jpeg 1258w, https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Scrub-Jay-300x191.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Scrub-Jay-1024x653.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Scrub-Jay-768x490.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Florida scrub jay in its preferred habitat, the Florida oak scrub ecosystem. Photo credit: Colin Daniel, 2023.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/\">ApexRMS<\/a> staff recently met with collaborating scientists, land managers, and modelers to discuss the potential role of land management practices in mitigating the decline of the <a href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/wildlifehabitats\/profiles\/birds\/songbirds\/florida-scrub-jay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida scrub jay<\/a>. The Florida scrub jay is the only bird endemic to Florida and its recent population decline is in large part due to the species\u2019 dependence on a unique oak scrub ecosystem. This ecosystem, found only along the ancient sandy ridges and dunes of Florida, has been disappearing over the past 50-100 years from land conversion and fire suppression. ApexRMS is involved with determining if prescribed burning could help improve the quality of the remaining scrub jay habitat and what the potential implications might be for the bird\u2019s population size. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to visiting the remaining tracts of Florida oak scrub habitat, ApexRMS president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colinjdaniel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colin Daniel<\/a>, also participated in discussions for creating an integrated model of vegetation change and population dynamics of the Florida scrub jay. As a collaborative project with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.org\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Nature Conservancy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bob-lacy-587b648\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Bob Lacy<\/a>, the creator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/scti.tools\/vortex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vortex Population Viability Analysis<\/a> (PVA), ApexRMS is excited to be breaking new ground by connecting the PVA model to the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.stsim.net\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ST-Sim model<\/a> of vegetation change in support of a recovery strategy for the Florida scrub jay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ApexRMS staff recently met with collaborating scientists, land managers, and modelers to discuss the potential role of land management practices in mitigating the decline of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/scrub-jay-feature-image.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9872,"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions\/9872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexrms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}