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The guiding goal for this project is to determine the following:

RESEARCH QUESTION

HYPOTHESIS

How well can a weighted model of a few anthropogenic disturbance variables (agricultural conversion, human population, and invasive species counts) predict terrestrial mammalian extinction risk?

Based on prior research, I expect this study’s results to align with the following hypothesis:

Given educated variable weights based on existing studies and sufficiently significant anthropogenic variables, an MCE model can predict hot spot risk regions with at least 50% model/validation overlap accuracy.

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