Sources Cited in the Tools
Every reference behind the Wildlife and Forestry Tools, in one list
Each tool page in this reference ends with the sources behind its method: the papers that introduced an index, the books the statistics come from, the standards a unit is defined by. This page gathers all of them into a single alphabetical list, numbered so the count is plain. The tools cite 240 sources across 89 pages.
- Agresti, A. 1990. Categorical data analysis. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, USA. Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis
- Alberta Geomatics Historical Society. Chain, engineer's. <https://albertalandsurveyhistory.ca/?p=2804>. Accessed 8 Oct 2026. Cited in: Unit Converter
- Allouche, O., A. Tsoar, and R. Kadmon. 2006. Assessing the accuracy of species distribution models: prevalence, kappa and the true skill statistic (TSS). Journal of Applied Ecology 43:1223–1232. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01214.x Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Smoot. Online edition. <https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=smoot>. Accessed 8 Oct 2026. Cited in: Unit Converter
- Antor, R. J. 1994. Arthropod fallout on high alpine snow patches of the Central Pyrenees, northeastern Spain. Arctic and Alpine Research 26:72–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/00040851.1994.12003042 Cited in: About Aspect and Circular Statistics
- Aronov, B., M. van Kreveld, M. Löffler, and R. I. Silveira. 2011. Peeling meshed potatoes. Algorithmica 60:349–367. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-009-9346-8 Cited in: Maximum Inscribed Geometry
- Babin, G., S. Deneault, and G. Laporte. 2007. Improvements to the Or-opt heuristic for the symmetric travelling salesman problem. Journal of the Operational Research Society 58(3):402–407. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602160 Cited in: Estimated Shortest Path through Points
- Barlow, G. W. 1974. Hexagonal territories. Animal Behaviour 22:876–878. https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-3472(74)90010-4 Cited in: Adaptive Voronoi Polygons
- Barnes, R., C. Lehman, and D. Mulla. 2014. Priority-flood: an optimal depression-filling and watershed-labeling algorithm for digital elevation models. Computers & Geosciences 62:117–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2013.04.024 Cited in: Topographic Wetness Index
- Batschelet, E. 1981. Circular statistics in biology. Academic Press, London, United Kingdom. Cited in: About Aspect and Circular Statistics, Aspect Focal Statistics, Aspect Zonal Statistics as Table, Extract Aspect Values to Points, Polar Plots, Topography along Lines
- Beasom, S. L., E. P. Wiggers, and J. R. Giardino. 1983. A technique for assessing land surface ruggedness. Journal of Wildlife Management 47:1163–1166. https://doi.org/10.2307/3808184 Cited in: About Topographic Roughness, LSRI on Contours, LSRI on DEM, Terrain Ruggedness Index (TRI), Vector Ruggedness Measure (VRM)
- Beers, T. W., P. E. Dress, and L. C. Wensel. 1966. Aspect transformation in site productivity research. Journal of Forestry 64:691–692. https://doi.org/10.1093/jof/64.10.691 Cited in: About Aspect and Circular Statistics, Aspect Transformation
- Beier, P., and B. Brost. 2010. Use of land facets to plan for climate change: conserving the arenas, not the actors. Conservation Biology 24:701–710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01422.x Cited in: About Land Facet Corridors, About Topographic Position Index, Land Facet Clustering, Land Facet Tutorial
- Beier, P., D. Majka, and J. Jenness. 2007, revised 2026. Designing wildlife corridors with ArcGIS: ArcGIS Pro edition. Workshop book, revised by J. Jenness for the Corridor Designer Tools of the Wildlife and Forestry Tools add-in. <https://www.jennessent.com/corridor-designer-tools/CorridorDesigner_WorkshopBook_2026_ArcGISPro.pdf>. Cited in: About Corridor Design, About Land Facet Corridors, Bottleneck Analysis, Clip Data to Analysis Area, Combine Habitat Factors, Corridor Design Tutorial, Corridor Evaluation Tutorial, Create Habitat Patches, Create Habitat Suitability Model, Create HSM Remap Table, Critical Habitat Feature, Cross-Tab Statistics, Cumulative Surface, Fill Corridor Holes, Histograms and Statistics, Identify Termini Polygons, Invert Raster, Land Facet Density, Land Facet Mahalanobis, Land Facet Tutorial, Least-Cost Corridor, Normalize Existing HSM, Patch Analysis, Reclassify Features in HSM, Slope Position Classification, Union Corridors, Weighted Summary Statistics
- Beier, P., D. Majka, and J. Jenness. 2007. Designing wildlife corridors with ArcGIS. Workshop book, Northern Arizona University. <https://web.archive.org/web/20250104221549/http://corridordesign.org/>. Accessed 8 Oct 2026. Cited in: About Corridor Design, Combine Habitat Factors, Corridor Design Tutorial, Create Habitat Patches, Create Habitat Suitability Model, Create HSM Remap Table, Critical Habitat Feature, Reclassify Features in HSM, Union Corridors
- Beier, P., D. R. Majka, and W. D. Spencer. 2008. Forks in the road: choices in procedures for designing wildland linkages. Conservation Biology 22:836–851. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00942.x Cited in: About Corridor Design
- Benhamou, S. 2004. How to reliably estimate the tortuosity of an animal's path: straightness, sinuosity, or fractal dimension? Journal of Theoretical Biology 229:209–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.03.016 Cited in: Topography along Lines
- Bernabé-Poveda, M.-A., and A. Çöltekin. 2015. Prevalence of the terrain reversal effect in satellite imagery. International Journal of Digital Earth 8:640–655. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2014.942714 Cited in: About Hillshades and the Swiss Method
- Berry, J. K. 2002. Use surface area for realistic calculations. Geoworld 15(9):20–21. <http://www.innovativegis.com/basis/MapAnalysis/Topic11/Topic11.htm#Surface_area>. Accessed 8 Oct 2026. Cited in: About Topographic Roughness, Surface Area and Ratio
- Best, D. J., and N. I. Fisher. 1981. The bias of the maximum likelihood estimators of the von Mises-Fisher concentration parameters. Communications in Statistics – Simulation and Computation 10:493–502. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610918108812225 Cited in: About Aspect and Circular Statistics, Aspect Focal Statistics, Aspect Zonal Statistics as Table, Polar Plots
- Beven, K. J., and M. J. Kirkby. 1979. A physically based, variable contributing area model of basin hydrology. Hydrological Sciences Bulletin 24:43–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667909491834 Cited in: Topographic Wetness Index
- Bezdek, J. C. 1981. Pattern recognition with fuzzy objective function algorithms. Plenum Press, New York, New York, USA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0450-1 Cited in: Land Facet Clustering
- Biland, J., and A. Çöltekin. 2017. An empirical assessment of the impact of the light direction on the relief inversion effect in shaded relief maps: NNW is better than NW. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 44:358–372. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2016.1185647 Cited in: About Hillshades and the Swiss Method
- Bowden, D. C., G. C. White, A. B. Franklin, and J. L. Ganey. 2003. Estimating population size with correlated sampling unit estimates. Journal of Wildlife Management 67:1–10. https://doi.org/10.2307/3803055 Cited in: Surface Area and Ratio
- Bowker, A. H. 1948. A test for symmetry in contingency tables. Journal of the American Statistical Association 43:572–574. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1948.10483284 Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis
- Brassel, K. 1974. A model for automatic hill-shading. American Cartographer 1:15–27. https://doi.org/10.1559/152304074784107818 Cited in: About Hillshades and the Swiss Method, Blurred Hillshade, Multi-Sun Hillshade, Simple Hypsometric Shading
- Brodersen, K. H., C. S. Ong, K. E. Stephan, and J. M. Buhmann. 2010. The balanced accuracy and its posterior distribution. Pages 3121–3124 in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2010.764 Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis
- Brost, B. M., and P. Beier. 2012. Use of land facets to design linkages for climate change. Ecological Applications 22:87–103. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-0213.1 Cited in: About Land Facet Corridors, About Topographic Position Index, Land Facet Clustering, Land Facet Density, Land Facet Mahalanobis, Land Facet Tutorial
- Brown, K. Q. 1979. Voronoi diagrams from convex hulls. Information Processing Letters 9:223–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-0190(79)90074-7 Cited in: Voronoi (Thiessen) Polygons within Boundary
- Buckley, A., and D. Barnes. 2004. ArcGIS cartography: creating advanced effects for cartography in ArcMap. Technical session, 2004 Esri International User Conference, San Diego, California, USA. <https://content.esri.com/mappingcenter2007/resources/presentations/uc04_creatingadvancedeffectswitharcmap.pdf>. Accessed 30 Sep 2026. Cited in: About Hillshades and the Swiss Method, Blurred Hillshade
- Bureau International des Poids et Mesures [BIPM]. 2019. The International System of Units (SI). Ninth edition (SI Brochure). BIPM, Sevres, France. https://doi.org/10.59161/AUEZ1291 Cited in: Unit Converter
- Bureau of Land Management. 2009. Manual of surveying instructions for the survey of the public lands of the United States. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. <https://www.blm.gov/sites/default/files/Manual_Of_Surveying_Instructions_2009.pdf>. Accessed 8 Oct 2026. Cited in: Unit Converter
- Card, D. H. 1982. Using known map category marginal frequencies to improve estimates of thematic map accuracy. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 48:431–439. <https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19820041921>. Accessed 8 Oct 2026. Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis, Classification Accuracy (Kappa)
- Chang, J. S., and C. K. Yap. 1986. A polynomial solution for the potato-peeling problem. Discrete & Computational Geometry 1:155–182. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02187692 Cited in: Maximum Inscribed Geometry
- Clark, J. D., J. E. Dunn, and K. G. Smith. 1993. A multivariate model of female black bear habitat use for a geographic information system. Journal of Wildlife Management 57:519–526. https://doi.org/10.2307/3809276 Cited in: About Mahalanobis Distances, Calculate Statistical Matrices, Mahalanobis Distance at Points, Mahalanobis Distance Raster, Mahalanobis Distance — Chi-Square Transform
- Clarke, K. C. 1986. Computation of the fractal dimension of topographic surfaces using the triangular prism surface area method. Computers & Geosciences 12:713–722. https://doi.org/10.1016/0098-3004(86)90047-6 Cited in: About Topographic Roughness, Fractal Dimension
- Code of Federal Regulations. Title 36, Section 222.50, Grazing fees (USDA Forest Service). <https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/36/222.50>. Accessed 8 Oct 2026. Cited in: Unit Converter
- Code of Federal Regulations. Title 43, Section 4100.0-5, Definitions (Bureau of Land Management, grazing administration). <https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/43/4100.0-5>. Accessed 8 Oct 2026. Cited in: Unit Converter
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- Cohen, J. 1960. A coefficient of agreement for nominal scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement 20:37–46. Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis
- Cohen, J. 1968. Weighted kappa: nominal scale agreement with provision for scaled disagreement or partial credit. Psychological Bulletin 70:213–220. Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis
- Congalton, R. G. 1991. A review of assessing the accuracy of classifications of remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing of Environment 37:35–46. Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis
- Congalton, R. G., and K. Green. 1999. Assessing the accuracy of remotely sensed data: principles and practices. Lewis Publishers. Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis, Classification Accuracy (Kappa), Estimate Sample Size
- Congalton, R. G., and R. A. Mead. 1983. A quantitative method to test for consistency and correctness in photointerpretation. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 49:69–74. Cited in: About Kappa and Classification Accuracy Analysis, Compare Accuracy Analyses
- Conover, W. J. 1980. Practical nonparametric statistics. Second edition. John Wiley and Sons. Cited in: About Mahalanobis Distances
- Croes, G. A. 1958. A method for solving traveling-salesman problems. Operations Research 6(6):791–812. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.6.6.791 Cited in: Estimated Shortest Path through Points
- Dickson, B. G., and P. Beier. 2007. Quantifying the influence of topographic position on cougar (Puma concolor) movement in southern California, USA. Journal of Zoology 271:270–277. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00215.x Cited in: About Topographic Position Index, Classification System Builder, Slope Position Classification, Topographic Position Index (TPI)
- Dickson, B. G., J. S. Jenness, and P. Beier. 2005. Influence of vegetation, topography, and roads on cougar movement in southern California. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:264–276. https://doi.org/10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069<0264:IOVTAR>2.0.CO;2 Cited in: Split Lines into Topography Segments
- Dilts, T. E., M. E. Blum, K. T. Shoemaker, P. J. Weisberg, and K. M. Stewart. 2023. Improved topographic ruggedness indices more accurately model fine-scale ecological patterns. Landscape Ecology 38:1395–1410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01646-6 Cited in: About Topographic Roughness, Arc-Chord Ratio (ACR), LSRI on DEM, Surface Area and Ratio, Vector Ruggedness Measure (VRM)
- Draper, N. R., and H. Smith. 1998. Applied regression analysis. Third edition. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Cited in: About Mahalanobis Distances
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- Du Preez, C. 2015. A new arc-chord ratio (ACR) rugosity index for quantifying three-dimensional landscape structural complexity. Landscape Ecology 30:181–192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-014-0118-8 Cited in: About Topographic Roughness, Arc-Chord Ratio (ACR)
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- Dumelle, M., T. Kincaid, A. R. Olsen, and M. Weber. 2023. spsurvey: spatial sampling design and analysis in R. Journal of Statistical Software 105(3):1–29. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v105.i03 Cited in: Spatially Balanced Sample (GRTS)
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- Esri. Extract Values to Points (Spatial Analyst). ArcGIS Pro tool reference. <https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/spatial-analyst/extract-values-to-points.htm>. Accessed 27 Sep 2026. Cited in: Extract Aspect Values to Points
- Esri. Flip Line (Editing) tool reference, ArcGIS Pro. <https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/editing/flip-line.htm>. Accessed 28 Sep 2026. Cited in: Topography along Lines
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- Esri. How Slope works and How Aspect works. ArcGIS Pro tool reference. <https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/spatial-analyst/how-slope-works.htm> and <https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/spatial-analyst/how-aspect-works.htm>. Accessed 28 Sep 2026. Cited in: Split Lines into Topography Segments
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- Esri. Zonal Statistics as Table (Spatial Analyst). ArcGIS Pro tool reference. <https://doc.esri.com/en/arcgis-pro/latest/tool-reference/spatial-analyst/zonal-statistics-as-table.html>. Accessed 28 Sep 2026. Cited in: Aspect Zonal Statistics as Table, Slope Zonal Statistics as Table
- Evans, B. M., D. A. Walker, C. S. Benson, E. A. Nordstrand, and G. W. Petersen. 1989. Spatial interrelationships between terrain, snow distribution and vegetation patterns at an arctic foothills site in Alaska. Holarctic Ecology 12:270–278. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.1989.tb00846.x Cited in: About Aspect and Circular Statistics
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