Biodiversity monitoring, earth observations and the ecology of scale

CB Anderson - Ecology letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Human activity and land‐use change are dramatically altering the sizes, geographical
distributions and functioning of biological populations worldwide, with tremendous …

Widespread analytical pitfalls in empirical coexistence studies and a checklist for improving their statistical robustness

JCD Terry, DW Armitage - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Modern coexistence theory (MCT) offers a conceptually straightforward approach for
connecting empirical observations with an elegant theoretical framework, gaining popularity …

Open science, reproducibility, and transparency in ecology

SM Powers, SE Hampton - Ecological applications, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reproducibility is a key tenet of the scientific process that dictates the reliability and
generality of results and methods. The complexities of ecological observations and data …

Quantitative evidence synthesis: a practical guide on meta-analysis, meta-regression, and publication bias tests for environmental sciences

S Nakagawa, Y Yang, EL Macartney, R Spake… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Meta-analysis is a quantitative way of synthesizing results from multiple studies to obtain
reliable evidence of an intervention or phenomenon. Indeed, an increasing number of meta …

Animal detection and classification from camera trap images using different mainstream object detection architectures

M Tan, W Chao, JK Cheng, M Zhou, Y Ma, X Jiang… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The imagery captured by cameras provides important information for
wildlife research and conservation. Deep learning technology can assist ecologists in …

Closing the knowledge‐action gap in conservation with open science

DG Roche, RE O'Dea, KA Kerr, T Rytwinski… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The knowledge‐action gap in conservation science and practice occurs when research
outputs do not result in actions to protect or restore biodiversity. Among the diverse and …

Beyond ecosystem modeling: A roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration

I Fer, AK Gardella, AN Shiklomanov… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In an era of rapid global change, our ability to understand and predict Earth's natural
systems is lagging behind our ability to monitor and measure changes in the biosphere …

Quantifying research waste in ecology

M Purgar, T Klanjscek, A Culina - Nature ecology & evolution, 2022 - nature.com
Research inefficiencies can generate huge waste: evidence from biomedical research has
shown that most research is avoidably wasted and steps have been taken to tackle this …

Connecting the data landscape of long‐term ecological studies: The SPI‐Birds data hub

A Culina, F Adriaensen, LD Bailey… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The integration and synthesis of the data in different areas of science is drastically slowed
and hindered by a lack of standards and networking programmes. Long‐term studies of …

Biodiversity change in light of succession theory

IR Staude, A Weigelt, C Wirth - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is rapidly changing in the Anthropocene, but not all directional changes
observed in biodiversity time series are anthropogenic. We discuss key research findings in …