Articles | Volume 27, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2747-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2747-2023
Research article
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24 Jul 2023
Research article |  | 24 Jul 2023

Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Justin M. Pflug, Yiwen Fang, Steven A. Margulis, and Ben Livneh

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Pflug et al. (2023) scripts J.M. Pflug https://github.com/jupflug/HABITAT-threshold_vs_discretization

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Wolverine denning habitat inferred using a snow threshold differed for three different spatial representations of snow. These differences were based on the annual volume of snow and the elevation of the snow line. While denning habitat was most influenced by winter meteorological conditions, our results show that studies applying thresholds to environmental datasets should report uncertainties stemming from different spatial resolutions and uncertainties introduced by the thresholds themselves.