Using a Bayesian network to understand the importance of coastal storms and undeveloped landscapes for the creation and maintenance of early successional habitat
Fig 2
Configuration of nodes and edges in the Plover Habitat Bayesian network used to predictively map habitat for piping plovers.
Prior probability distributions for this network were derived from data collected at piping plover nests and random points at sites in 2014 and 2015 using the iPlover data collection application. The network as shown in this figure illustrates prior probability distributions for instances where nests were present (i.e., characteristics associated with habitat).