Species distribution models (SDM s) are used to inform a range of ecological,
biogeographical and conservation applications. However, users often underestimate the …

Building useful models of species distributions requires attention to several important issues,
one being imperfect detection of species. Data sets of species detections are likely to suffer …

Camera traps have become a ubiquitous tool in ecology and conservation. They are
routinely deployed in wildlife survey and monitoring work, and are being advocated as a tool …

Aim Species often remain undetected at sites where they are present. However, the impact
of imperfect detection on species distribution models (SDM s) is not fully appreciated. In this …

The past decade has seen an explosion in the development and application of models
aimed at estimating species occurrence and occupancy dynamics while accounting for …

The application and interpretation of statistics are central to ecological study and practice.
Ecologists are now asking more sophisticated questions than in the past. These new …

Occupancy–abundance (OA) relationships are a foundational ecological phenomenon and
field of study, and occupancy models are increasingly used to track population trends and …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling is prone to both false‐positive and false‐negative
errors. We review statistical methods to account for such errors in the analysis of eDNA data …

Large‐scale citizen‐science projects, such as atlases of species distribution, are an
important source of data for macroecological research, for understanding the effects of …

In a recent paper, Welsh, Lindenmayer and Donnelly (WLD) question the usefulness of
models that estimate species occupancy while accounting for detectability. WLD claim that …