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 …

Technological advances have enabled a new class of multivariate models for ecology, with
the potential now to specify a statistical model for abundances jointly across many taxa, to …

This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building,
evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of …

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

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

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 …

Explaining and modeling species communities is more than ever a central goal of ecology.
Recently, joint species distribution models (JSDMs), which extend species distribution …

Trait‐based approaches are increasingly being used to test mechanisms underlying species
assemblages and biotic interactions across a wide range of organisms including terrestrial …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have gained attention as a conservation tool for enhancing
ecosystem resilience to climate change. However, empirical evidence explicitly linking …

Model‐based methods have emerged as a powerful approach for analysing multivariate
abundance data in community ecology. Key applications include model‐based ordination …