There is increasing availability and use of unstructured and semi‐structured citizen science
data in biodiversity research and conservation. This expansion of a rich source of 'big …

Natural history collections (NHC) provide a wealth of information that can be used to
understand the impacts of global change on biodiversity. As such, there is growing interest …

Advances in statistics mean that it is now possible to tackle increasingly sophisticated
observation processes. The intricacies and ambitious scale of modern data collection …

As human density increases, biodiversity must increasingly co-exist with urbanization or face
local extinction. Tolerance of urban areas has been linked to numerous functional traits, yet …

The rise of passive acoustic monitoring and the rapid growth in large audio datasets is
driving the development of analysis methods that allow ecological inferences to be drawn …

Conservation planning requires extensive amounts of data, yet data collection is expensive,
and there is often a trade‐off between the quantity and quality of data that can be collected …

Aim Map** species distributions is a crucial but challenging requirement of wildlife
management. The frequent need to sample vast expanses of potential habitat increases the …

Natural history collections (NHCs) have been indispensable to understanding longer‐term
trends of the timing of seasonal events. Massive‐scale digitization of specimens promises to …

Data deficiencies among rare or cryptic species preclude assessment of community‐level
processes using many existing approaches, limiting our understanding of the trends and …

To analyze species count data when detection is imperfect, ecologists need models to
estimate relative abundance in the presence of unknown sources of heterogeneity. Two …