Implications of movement for species distribution models - rethinking environmental data tools

Movement is considered an essential process in shaping the distributions of species. Nevertheless, most species distribution models (SDMs) still focus solely on environment-species relationships to predict the occurrence of species. Furthermore, the currently used indirect estimates of movement allow to assess habitat accessibility, but do not provide an accurate description of movement. Better proxies of movement are needed to assess the dispersal potential of individual species and to gain a more practical insight in the interconnectivity of communities. Telemetry techniques are rapidly evolving and highly capable to provide explicit descriptions of movement, but their usefulness for SDMs will mainly depend on the ability of these models to deal with hitherto unconsidered ecological processes. More specifically, the integration of movement is likely to affect the environmental data requirements as the connection between environmental and biological data is crucial to provide reliable results. Mobility implies the occupancy of a continuum of space, hence an adequate representation of both geographical and environmental space is paramount to study mobile species distributions. In this context, environmental models, remote sensing techniques and animal-borne environmental sensors are discussed as potential techniques to obtain suitable environmental data. In order to provide an in-depth review of the aforementioned methods, we have chosen to use the modelling of fish distributions as a case study. The high mobility of fish and the often highly variable nature of the aquatic environment generally complicate model development, making it an adequate subject for research. Furthermore, insight into the distribution of fish is of great interest for fish stock assessments and water management worldwide, underlining its practical relevance

Chasing audience rate with piours words - the church theme as a factor of succsess for german TV-series

Trotz des zurzeit vorherrschenden schlechten Images der Kirche in Deutschland sind Filme und Serien, in denen die Kirche eine Rolle spielt sehr beliebt und immer wieder erfolgreich. Diese Arbeit geht dem Phänomen der deutschen geistlichen Fernsehserie auf den Grund, um heraus zu finden welche Faktoren für den Erfolg dieser TV-Serien verantwortlich sind. Dazu werden nicht nur zwei aktuelle Serien analysiert sondern auch die Erfolgsgeschichte der geistlichen Serie in Deutschland betrachtet. Darüber hinaus widmet sich diese Arbeit auch der Position der Kirche zu den Medien, um schließlich an Hand der Ergebnisse ein Format zu entwickeln, das alle herausgearbeiteten Faktoren enthält und dabei nicht von der Kirche kritisiert sondern unterstützt wird