Microbial network construction is a popular explorative data analysis technique in
microbiome research. Although a large number of microbial network construction tools has …

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 …

Feature selection becomes prominent, especially in the data sets with many variables and
features. It will eliminate unimportant variables and improve the accuracy as well as the …

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 …

Species distribution models, also known as ecological niche models or habitat suitability
models, have become commonplace for addressing fundamental and applied biodiversity …

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 …

Understanding the relationship between the geographical distribution of taxa and their
environmental conditions is a key concept in ecology and conservation. The use of …

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

Mountains are pivotal to maintaining habitat heterogeneity, global biodiversity, ecosystem
functions and services to humans. They have provided classic model natural systems for …

Community ecology aims to understand what factors determine the assembly and dynamics
of species assemblages at different spatiotemporal scales. To facilitate the integration …