The coefficient of determination R 2 quantifies the proportion of variance explained by a
statistical model and is an important summary statistic of biological interest. However …

Fisheries scientists provide stock, ecosystem, habitat, and climate assessments to support
interdisplinary fisheries management in the US and worldwide. These assessment activities …

Model‐based methods have emerged as a powerful approach for analysing multivariate
abundance data in community ecology. Key applications include model‐based ordination …

Seed‐based ecosystem restoration has huge potential to restore degraded drylands.
However, fewer than 10% of directly sown seeds transition to established seedlings. One of …

The Tweedie GLM is a widely used method for predicting insurance premiums. However, the
structure of the logarithmic mean is restricted to a linear form in the Tweedie GLM, which can …

Ecologists often analyse biomass sampling data that result in many zeros, where remaining
samples can take any positive real number. Samples are often analysed using a “delta …

In this paper we consider generalized linear latent variable models that can handle
overdispersed counts and continuous but non-negative data. Such data are common in …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are important management tools for highly mobile
marine species because they provide spatially and temporally explicit information on animal …

Soil microbial community data produced by next-generation sequencing platforms has
introduced a new era in microbial ecology studies but poses a challenge for data analysis …

Loggerhead turtles are a globally vulnerable species of marine turtle. Broad-scale patterns
of distribution and abundance can provide regional managers a tool to effectively conserve …