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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Geogr. 2016 Sep 28;76:173–183. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2016.09.025

Table 2.

Summary of methods for mapping resource selection function model results that employ binned displays based on a review of the literature. The number of studies, percentage of studies, are references to the specific studies are reported.

Bin Method # studies % studies using bins References
Quantiles 28 41.18%
2 bins 1 (Kunkel, Atwood, Ruth, Pletscher, & Hornocker, 2013)
3 bins 1 (Carroll, Noss, & Paquet, 2001)
4 bins 7 (Beckmann, Murray, Seidler, & Berger, 2012; Clark et al., 2014; Coe et al., 2011; Hodder, Johnson, Rea, & Zedrosser, 2014; Jiang et al., 2009; Johnson et al., 2005; Loring et al., 2014)
5 bins 9 (Costello, Cain, Nielson, Servheen, & Schwartz, 2013; Doherty, Naugle, & Walker, 2010; Dzialak et al., 2013, 2012; Harju, Olson, Dzialak, Mudd, & Winstead, 2013; Lewis et al., 2011; Smith, Kirol, Beck, & Blomquist, 2014; Webb et al., 2013; White et al., n.d.)
6 bins 1 (Johnson & Gillingham, 2005)
7 bins 1 (Pigeon, Nielsen, Stenhouse, & Côté, 2014)
10 bins 7 (Dickson et al., 2014; Dzialak et al., 2013; Dzialak, Olson, Webb, Harju, & Winstead, 2015; Florkiewicz, Maraj, Hegel, & Waterreus, 2007; Northrup, Stenhouse, & Boyce, 2012; J. Polfus, Hebblewhite, & Heinemeyer, 2011; Takahata, Nishino, Kido, & Izumiyama, 2013)
20 bins 1 (Proffitt et al., 2011)
Equal Interval 13 19.12%
3 bins 3 (Chimeddorj, Buuveibaatar, Onon, Munkhtogtokh, & Reading, 2013; Enari & Sakamaki–Enari, 2013; Singleton, Lehmkuhl, Gaines, & Graham, 2010)
4 bins 4 (Campos, Gatica, & Bellis, 2015; Dillard, Russell, & Ford, 2008; Miller, Jhala, Jena, & Schmitz, 2015; Pedersen, Jepsen, Yoccoz, & Fuglei, 2007)
5 bins 3 (Girard, Bork, Nielsen, & Alexander, 2013; Gottschalk, Ekschmitt, İsfendiyaroglu, Gem, & Wolters, 2007; Shanley, Pyare, & Smith, 2013)
8 bins 1 (Shanley, Kofinas, & Pyare, 2013)
10 bins 2 (Shanley & Pyare, 2011; Speed, Woodin, Tømmervik, Tamstorf, & van der Wal, 2009)
categorical bins w/undefined methods 6 8.82%
3 bins 2 (Ciarniello, Boyce, Heard, & Seip, 2007; Ciarniello, Boyce, Seip, & Heard, 2009)
4 bins 1 (Erickson, McDonald, & Skinner, 1998)
5 bins 2 (Elbroch, Lendrum, Newby, Quigley, & Craighead, 2013; Roever et al., 2013)
4 to 9 bins 1 (Chetkiewicz & Boyce, 2009)
Standard deviations 5 7.35%
4 bins 2 (Bleich et al., 2009; May et al., 2008)
5 bins 2 (Beerens, Gawlik, Herring, & Cook, 2011; Nielsen et al., 2004)
6 bins 1 (Montgomery, Roloff, Millspaugh, & Nylen-Nemetchek, 2014)
Equal Area 4 5.88%
5 bins 1 (Matthews & Spooner, 2014)
10 bins 3 (Mark Hebblewhite, Miquelle, Murzin, Aramilev, & Pikunov, 2011; J. L. Polfus, Heinemeyer, & Hebblewhite, 2014; Roever et al., 2013)
Breakpoint defined by observed data 4 5.88%
4 classes defined by true positive = true negative 1 (Kinley, Whittington, Dibb, & Newhouse, 2014)
Percentiles from observed data-10 1 (Seip et al., 2007)
binary based on minimum score for used home ranges 1 (Broman, Litvaitis, Ellingwood, Tate, & Reed, 2014)
4 bins based on predictive accuracy 1 (Jędrzejewski et al., 2008)
0 – 1 rescale with arbitrary bin breaks 2 2.94%
4 bins 1 (Sakuragi et al., 2003)
5 bins 1 (Tamstorf, Aastrup, & Cuyler, 2005)
Geometric Mean 3 4.41%
5 bins 1 (Masse, Tefft, & McWilliams, 2014)
8 bins 1 (Carpenter, Aldridge, & Boyce, 2010)
10 bins 1 (Aldridge, Saher, Childers, Stahlnecker, & Bowen, 2012)
binary cutoff 2 2.94%
threshold between .4 – .6 1 (Oehlers et al., 2011)
highest 10% values = high probability 1 (Bleich et al., 2008)
Total 68 100%