Table 1. Fisher occurrence records from the Pacific States used to evaluate the effects of data quality on the performance and reliability of Maxent species distribution models.
Data Set | Region | Year | n | References |
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Verifiable records | Western Washington | 1990–1997 | 0a | [32] |
Western Oregon | 1994–2001 | 29 | [16] | |
California | 1989–1994 | 96 | [25] | |
Unscreened records | Western Washington | 1955–1992 | 94b | [33–34]; K. Aubry, unpublished data |
Western Oregon | 1954–1993 | 145c | [16, 34] | |
California | 1960–1987 | 150 | [35–36] |
aA series of standardized remote-camera surveys involving > 17,000 sample nights were conducted throughout western Washington by various researchers from 1990 to 1997; no fishers were detected.
bWe excluded 22 unscreened fisher occurrence records from Washington compiled by Aubry and Houston [33] because they had spatial precision > 5.5 km or were located in different ecoregions [34] outside our analysis area, and included 1 additional record from 1992 that was not reported by Aubry and Houston [33].