Interpreting insect declines: seven challenges and a way forward

RK Didham, Y Basset, CM Collins… - Insect Conservation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many insect species are under threat from the anthropogenic drivers of global change.
There have been numerous well‐documented examples of insect population declines and …

When does artificial intelligence replace process-based models in ecological modelling?

GA Alexandrov - Ecological Modelling, 2025 - Elsevier
Sixteen years ago, Sven Jørgensen, a founder of Ecological Modelling, wrote that artificial
neural networks could be very useful in most cases but cannot replace biogeochemical …

A multi‐model ensemble of baseline and process‐based models improves the predictive skill of near‐term lake forecasts

F Olsson, TN Moore, CC Carey… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water temperature forecasting in lakes and reservoirs is a valuable tool to manage crucial
freshwater resources in a changing and more variable climate, but previous efforts have yet …

Spatio-temporal transferability of environmentally-dependent population models: insights from the intrinsic predictabilities of Adélie penguin abundance time series

B Şen, C Che-Castaldo, KM Krumhardt, L Landrum… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecological predictions are necessary for testing whether processes hypothesized to regulate
species population dynamics are generalizable across time and space. In order to …

Penguins in the anthropause: COVID-19 closures drive gentoo penguin movement among breeding colonies

CM Flynn, T Hart, GV Clucas, HJ Lynch - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic caused the Port Lockroy post office, a popular Antarctic tourism
destination, to close in 2020, creating a natural experiment to test human impacts on the …

Variability, skipped breeding and heavy‐tailed dynamics in an Antarctic seabird

EJ Talis, C Che‐Castaldo, B Şen… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The population dynamics of many colonially breeding seabirds are characterized by large
interannual fluctuations that cannot be explained by environmental conditions alone. This …

Broadening participation: 21st century opportunities for amateurs in biology research

O de Lange, C Youngflesh, A Ibarra… - Integrative and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The modern field of biology has its roots in the curiosity and skill of amateur researchers and
has never been purely the domain of professionals. Today, professionals and amateurs …

Data science competition for cross-site individual tree species identification from airborne remote sensing data

SJ Graves, S Marconi, D Stewart, I Harmon… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Data on individual tree crowns from remote sensing have the potential to advance forest
ecology by providing information about forest composition and structure with a continuous …

Predicting the timing of ecological phenomena using dates of species occurrence records: a methodological approach and test case with mushrooms

C Capinha - International journal of biometeorology, 2019 - Springer
Spatiotemporal predictions of ecological phenomena are highly useful and significant in
scientific and socio-economic applications. However, the inadequate availability of …

Adélie penguins north and east of the 'Adélie gap'continue to thrive in the face of dramatic declines elsewhere in the Antarctic Peninsula region

M Wethington, C Flynn, A Borowicz, HJ Lynch - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
While population declines among Adélie penguins and population increases among gentoo
penguins on the Western Antarctic Peninsula are well established, the logistical challenges …