The causes of biodiversity change are of great scientific interest and central to policy efforts
aimed at meeting biodiversity targets. Changes in species diversity and high rates of …

Trait-based approaches are increasingly recognized as a tool for understanding ecosystem
re-assembly and function under intensifying global change. Here we synthesize trait-based …

There is a rich amount of information in co‐occurrence (presence–absence) data that could
be used to understand community assembly. This proposition first envisioned by Forbes …

Climate change is a pervasive threat to biodiversity. While range shifts are a known
consequence of climate warming contributing to regional community change, less is known …

Abstract Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM) is becoming an increasingly popular
statistical method for analysing data in community ecology. Hierarchical Modelling of …

What is benthic habitat map**, how is it accomplished, and how has that changed over
time? We query the published literature to answer these questions and synthesize the …

The factors determining stochastic and deterministic processes that drive microbial
community structure, specifically the balance of abundant and rare bacterial taxa, remain …

A large array of species distribution model (SDM) approaches has been developed for
explaining and predicting the occurrences of individual species or species assemblages …

New technologies for monitoring biodiversity such as environmental (e) DNA, passive
acoustic monitoring, and optical sensors promise to generate automated spatiotemporal …

Negative binomial modelling is one of the most commonly used statistical tools for analysing
count data in ecology and biodiversity research. This is not surprising given the prevalence …