In an epoch of rapid environmental change, understanding and predicting how biodiversity
will respond to a changing climate is an urgent challenge. Since we seldom have sufficient …

Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

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

Motion‐activated cameras (“camera traps”) are increasingly used in ecological and
management studies for remotely observing wildlife and are amongst the most powerful …

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 …

Aim Recent studies increasingly use statistical methods to infer biotic interactions from co‐
occurrence information at a large spatial scale. However, disentangling biotic interactions …

A typical camera trap survey may produce millions of images that require slow, expensive
manual review. Consequently, critical conservation questions may be answered too slowly …

Urban freshwater ecosystems have important ecosystem functions, provide habitats for
diverse microbial communities and are susceptible to multiple interconnected factors such …

Rivers are among the most threatened freshwater ecosystems, and anthropogenic activities
are affecting both river structures and water quality. While assessing the organisms can …