Predicting which species will occur together in the future, and where, remains one of the
greatest challenges in ecology, and requires a sound understanding of how the abiotic and …

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 …

Joint species distribution modelling (JSDM) is a fast-developing field and promises to
revolutionise how data on ecological communities are analysed and interpreted. Written for …

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

A primary goal of ecology is to understand the fundamental processes underlying the
geographic distributions of species. Two major strands of ecology–habitat modelling and …

Inferring biotic interactions from functional, phylogenetic and geographical proxies remains
one great challenge in ecology. We propose a conceptual framework to infer the backbone …

Aim Biotic interactions–within guilds or across trophic levels–have widely been ignored in
species distribution models (SDMs). This synthesis outlines the development of 'species …

Modern species distribution models account for spatial autocorrelation in order to obtain
unbiased statistical inference on the effects of covariates, to improve the model's predictive …

Estimation of intra-and interspecific interactions from time-series on species-rich
communities is challenging due to the high number of potentially interacting species pairs …

Species distribution models have grown in complexity by incorporating fine‐scale variables,
including data on microclimate, physiology and species interactions. Recent studies have …