A common feature of ecological data sets is their tendency to contain many zero values.
Statistical inference based on such data are likely to be inefficient or wrong unless careful …

Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is a major synthesis of 25 years of intensive research
about the montane ash forests of Victoria, which support the world's tallest flowering plants …

The use of presence/absence data in wildlife management and biological surveys is
widespread. There is a growing interest in quantifying the sources of error associated with …

Efforts to design monitoring regimes capable of detecting population trends can be thwarted
by observational and economic constraints inherent to most biological surveys. Ensuring …

Introduction: Novel ecosystems occur when new combinations of species appear within a
particular biome due to human activity, environmental change, or impacts of introduced …

Large-scale vegetation clearing accompanying agricultural development has been a major
driver of biodiversity loss. Efforts to reverse this problem have often included revegetation …

Among other outcomes, volunteer surveys are useful for evaluating conservation success
and determining priorities for management actions. However, biases that can originate from …

Aim To quantify bird responses to a large unplanned fire, taking into consideration
landscape‐level fire severity and extent, pre‐fire site detection frequency and environmental …

Biodiversity conservation on agricultural land is a major issue worldwide. We estimated
separate and joint effects of remnant native woodland vegetation and recent tree plantings …

Significant biodiversity loss is characteristic of agricultural landscapes worldwide.
Biodiversity recovery efforts in such landscapes can be hamstrung by a paucity of …