Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation

D Tuia, B Kellenberger, S Beery, BR Costelloe… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inexpensive and accessible sensors are accelerating data acquisition in animal ecology.
These technologies hold great potential for large-scale ecological understanding, but are …

Traits sha** urban tolerance in birds differ around the world

MHC Neate-Clegg, BA Tonelli, C Youngflesh, JX Wu… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
As human density increases, biodiversity must increasingly co-exist with urbanization or face
local extinction. Tolerance of urban areas has been linked to numerous functional traits, yet …

Ecological forecasts of insect range dynamics: a broad range of taxa includes winners and losers under future climate

N Neupane, EA Larsen, L Ries - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Insect ecological projections have grown, increasingly incorporating best
practices.•Correlative studies continue to dominate, complicating interpretability.•Projections …

Addressing data integration challenges to link ecological processes across scales

EF Zipkin, ER Zylstra, AD Wright… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Data integration is a statistical modeling approach that incorporates multiple data sources
within a unified analytical framework. Macrosystems ecology–the study of ecological …

Factors influencing transferability in species distribution models

JS Rousseau, MG Betts - Ecography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) provide insights into species' ecology and distributions
and are frequently used to guide conservation priorities. However, many uses of SDMs …

Abiotic conditions shape spatial and temporal morphological variation in North American birds

C Youngflesh, JF Saracco, RB Siegel… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Quantifying environment–morphology relationships is important not only for understanding
the fundamental processes driving phenotypic diversity within and among species but also …

Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity

EF Zipkin, JW Doser, CL Davis… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Data deficiencies among rare or cryptic species preclude assessment of community‐level
processes using many existing approaches, limiting our understanding of the trends and …

Spatially varying coefficients can improve parsimony and descriptive power for species distribution models

JT Thorson, CL Barnes, ST Friedman, JL Morano… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to relate species occurrence and
density to local environmental conditions, and often include a spatially correlated variable to …

Understanding habitat selection of range‐expanding populations of large carnivores: 20 years of grey wolves (Canis lupus) recolonizing Germany

A Planillo, M Wenzler‐Meya, I Reinhardt… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The non‐stationarity in habitat selection of expanding populations poses a significant
challenge for spatial forecasting. Focusing on the grey wolf (Canis lupus) natural …

A broad-scale look at nutrient limitation and a shift toward co-limitation in United States Lakes

LA Rock, SM Collins - Environmental Science & Technology, 2024 - ACS Publications
There is a longstanding debate about the role of nitrogen (N) vs phosphorus (P) in limiting
primary production in lakes and whether co-nutrient limitation should be considered for …