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 …

Acoustic surveys are a widely used sampling tool in ecological research and monitoring.
They are used to monitor populations and ecosystems and to study various aspects of …

With the advance of methods for estimating species distribution models has come an interest
in how to best combine datasets to improve estimates of species distributions. This has …

Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the
scattered knowledge for assessing biodiversity status and trends. The concept of E ssential …

Camera traps are increasingly used to study wildlife ecology and inform conservation, but
valid inference depends on appropriate data analysis. This article introduces the most …

Camera traps are used by scientists and natural resource managers to acquire ecological
data, and the rapidly increasing camera trapping literature highlights how popular this …

All questions in ecology and problems in conservation play out in space. This simple fact
has generated a long-standing interest from scientists and practitioners, and it is now well …

Targeted species‐specific and community‐wide molecular diagnostics tools are being used
with increasing frequency to detect invasive or rare species. Few studies have compared the …

Efforts to draw inferences about species occurrence frequently account for false negatives,
the common situation when individuals of a species are not detected even when a site is …

The past decade has seen an explosion in the development and application of models
aimed at estimating species occurrence and occupancy dynamics while accounting for …