sdmTMB: an R package for fast, flexible, and user-friendly generalized linear mixed effects models with spatial and spatiotemporal random fields

SC Anderson, EJ Ward, PA English, LAK Barnett - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Geostatistical data—spatially referenced observations related to some continuous spatial
phenomenon—are ubiquitous in ecology and can reveal ecological processes and inform …

Groundfish biodiversity change in northeastern Pacific waters under projected warming and deoxygenation

PL Thompson, J Nephin, SC Davies… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the coming decades, warming and deoxygenation of marine waters are anticipated to
result in shifts in the distribution and abundance of fishes, with consequences for the …

Contrasting climate velocity impacts in warm and cool locations show that effects of marine warming are worse in already warmer temperate waters

PA English, EJ Ward, CN Rooper, RE Forrest… - Fish and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species responses to climate change are often measured at broad spatiotemporal scales,
which can miss the fine‐scale changes that are most relevant to conservation and fisheries …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence of Chinook salmon is higher for southern than for northern resident killer whales in summer hot-spot feeding areas

B Saygili, AW Trites - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Differences in the availability of prey may explain the low numbers of southern resident killer
whales and the increase in northern resident killer whales in British Columbia and …

Improving estimates of species distribution change by incorporating local trends

LAK Barnett, EJ Ward, SC Anderson - Ecography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A common goal in ecology and its applications is to better understand how species'
distributions change over space and time, yet many conventional summary metrics (eg …

The shadow model: how and why small choices in spatially explicit species distribution models affect predictions

CJC Commander, LAK Barnett, EJ Ward, SC Anderson… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
The use of species distribution models (SDMs) has rapidly increased over the last decade,
driven largely by increasing observational evidence of distributional shifts of terrestrial and …

Integrating trawl and longline surveys across British Columbia improves groundfish distribution predictions

PL Thompson, SC Anderson, J Nephin… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Predictions of the distribution of groundfish species are needed to support ongoing marine
spatial planning initiatives in Canadian Pacific waters. Data to inform species distribution …

Disentangling the impacts of environmental change and commercial fishing on demersal fish biodiversity in a northeast Pacific ecosystem

PL Thompson, SC Anderson, J Nephin… - Marine Ecology …, 2022 - int-res.com
Conservation of marine biodiversity requires understanding the joint influence of ongoing
environmental change and fishing pressure. Addressing this challenge requires robust …

Evaluating drivers of spatiotemporal variability in individual condition of a bottom-associated marine fish, Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)

M Lindmark, SC Anderson, M Gogina… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
An organism's body condition describes its mass given its length and is often positively
associated with fitness. The condition of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the Baltic Sea has …

Factors affecting the seasonal distribution and biomass of E. pacifica and T. spinifera along the Pacific coast of Canada: A spatiotemporal modelling approach

R Evans, PA English, SC Anderson, S Gauthier… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Euphausiids are a keystone species in coastal food webs due to their high lipid content and
seasonally high biomass. Understanding the habitat and environmental drivers that lead to …