Research in applied ecology provides scientific evidence to guide conservation policy and
management. Applied ecology is becoming increasingly quantitative and model selection …

Amidst the replicability crisis, promoting transparency and rigor in research becomes
imperative. The Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) paradigm is increasingly used in …

The use of linear mixed effects models (LMMs) is increasingly common in the analysis of
biological data. Whilst LMMs offer a flexible approach to modelling a broad range of data …

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 …

An essential textbook for any student or researcher in biology needing to design
experiments, sample programs or analyse the resulting data. The text begins with a revision …

Full‐subsets information theoretic approaches are becoming an increasingly popular tool for
exploring predictive power and variable importance where a wide range of candidate …

Generalist species able to exploit anthropogenic food sources are becoming increasingly
common in urban environments. Coyotes (Canis latrans) are one such urban generalist that …

Fruit bats provide valuable pollination services to humans through a unique coevolutionary
relationship with chiropterophilous plants. However, chiropterophily in the Old World and the …

Environmental factors are well known to affect spatio-temporal patterns of infectious disease
outbreaks, but whether the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the globe is related to local …

In a previous article, we advocated against using the sum of Akaike weights (SW) as a metric
to distinguish between genuine and spurious variables in Information Theoretic (IT) …