Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Strata 34 and 35 contain a total of 11 transects, all classified as parkland. Climate data for these transects were used to obtain predicted wet basin counts for 1968 through 1990 using the parkland model. Predicted and actual wet basin counts were correlated well (r = 0.77).
Because different variables were important in parkland and grassland, it was necessary to determine the degree to which the models differed. To examine this question, I ran the parkland model on Canadian grassland data, and the Canadian grassland model on parkland data. For grassland data in the parkland model, the correlation coefficient between observed and predicted wet basins was 0.70, compared with 0.80 for grassland data in the grassland model. For parkland data in the grassland model, r = 0.73, compared with 0.81 for parkland data in the parkland model.