Reporting specific modelling methods and metadata is essential to the reproducibility of
ecological studies, yet guidelines rarely exist regarding what information should be noted …

Citizen science is on the rise. Aided by the internet, the popularity and scope of citizen
science appears almost limitless. For citizens the motivation is to contribute to “real” science …

Historical biogeography has a diversity of methods for inferring ancestral geographic ranges
on phylogenies, but many of the methods have conflicting assumptions, and there is no …

Recently, interest in species distribution modelling has increased following the development
of new methods for the analysis of presence‐only data and the deployment of these …

Biological Diversity provides an up to date, authoritative review of the methods of measuring
and assessing biological diversity, together with their application. The book's emphasis is on …

Citizen science, the involvement of volunteers in research, has increased the scale of
ecological field studies with continent-wide, centralized monitoring efforts and, more rarely …

Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species
Occurrence, Second Edition, provides a synthesis of model-based approaches for analyzing …

Risk maps summarizing landscape suitability of novel areas for invading species can be
valuable tools for preventing species' invasions or controlling their spread, but methods …

Fisheries conservation requires accurate knowledge of species identities and distributions.
Fisheries are typically assessed via capture‐based sampling, but managers frequently are …

Within the field of species distribution modelling an apparent dichotomy exists between
process‐based and correlative approaches, where the processes are explicit in the former …