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Masoumeh Najibzadeh

Masoumeh Najibzadeh

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2139-4833
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 57038888600
HIndex:
Faculty: Science
Address: Arak University
Phone: 0863267226

Research

Title
Habitat Suitability for the Caucasian frog Rana macrocnemis Boulenger, 1885 (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Rana macrocnemis, ENFA, Maxent, habitat suitability, grassland, high elevations, low temperature
Year
2017
Journal Russian Journal of Ecology
DOI
Researchers Masoumeh Najibzadeh ، Ahmeh Gharezi ، Nasrullah Rastegar Puyani ، اسکندر Rastegar Poyani ، Alireza Pesarakloo

Abstract

Modeling the distribution patterns of species is a generally efficient tool to assess their ecological characteristics. In this study, we compared ecological niche factor analysis (ENFA) and maximum entropy (Maxent) techniques to predict the most suitable distribution range of Rana macrocnemis. The Maxent model predicted potential suitable habitats for R. macrocnemis with high success rates (AUC Training data = 0.877 ± 0.039). According to the map constructed, three important variables had high contribution to species presence: temperature (50.4%), land cover (24.6%) and elevation (14.4%) variables. The ENFA results were relatively similar to Maxent jackknife analysis. The results implied that R. macrocnemis prefers grassland and needle leaf deciduous forest with high elevations, and low temperature.