SIMSPAR Model Simulates the Impact of Hydrology on the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow

Fact Sheet 136-02
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Abstract

SIMSPAR is a spatially-explicit, individual-based model designed as a management and evaluation tool for the Cape Sable seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus mirabilis), an endangered subspecies of seaside sparrow that lives exclusively in the southern Everglades. The model is designed to simulate how changes in hydrology across the nesting area of the sparrow is likely to affect the reproductive success and, therefore, the population viability of the Cape Sable sparrow. SIMSPAR has been developed at the University of Tennessee under the USGS's Across Trophic Level System Simulation (ATLSS) Program.

Suggested Citation

DeAngelis, D.L., Nott, P., and Gross, L.J., 2002, SIMSPAR Model Simulates the Impact of Hydrology on the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2002–136, https://doi.org/10.3133/fs13602.

ISSN: 2327-6932 (online)

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Table of Contents

  • Why the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow Is in Danger?
  • What the SIMSPAR Model Is Designed to Do and How it Works?
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title SIMSPAR model simulates the impact of hydrology on the Cape Sable seaside sparrow
Series title Fact Sheet
Series number 136-02
DOI 10.3133/fs13602
Publication Date October 01, 2002
Year Published 2002
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center
Description HTML Document
Country United States
State Florida
Other Geospatial Everglades
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