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 …

Biological recording is in essence a very simple concept in which a record is the report of a
species at a physical location at a certain time. The collation of these records into a dataset …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is increasingly used to study the present and
past biodiversity. eDNA analyses often rely on amplification of very small quantities or …

Policy‐makers increasingly demand robust measures of biodiversity change over short time
periods. Long‐term monitoring schemes provide high‐quality data, often on an annual …

Abstract The vision of Chandler (Chan) S. Robbins for a continental-scale omnibus survey of
breeding birds led to the development of the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) …

Introduction to WinBUGS for Ecologists introduces applied Bayesian modeling to ecologists
using the highly acclaimed, free WinBUGS software. It offers an understanding of statistical …

One consequence of climate change is an increasing mismatch between timing of food
requirements and food availability. Such a mismatch is primarily expected in avian long …

Abstract The North American Breeding Bird Survey is a roadside, count-based survey
conducted by volunteer observers. Begun in 1966, it now is a primary source of information …

Using only spatially and temporally replicated point counts,(2004b, Biometrics 60, 108–115)
developed an N-mixture model to estimate the abundance of an animal population when …

Few species are distributed uniformly in space, and populations of mobile organisms are
rarely closed with respect to movement, yet many models of density rely upon these …