Ecologists often discount presence‐absence surveys as a poor way to gain insight into
population dynamics, in part because these surveys are not amenable to many standard …

The occurrence of false positive detections in presence–absence data, even when they
occur infrequently, can lead to severe bias when estimating species occupancy patterns …

The rapid improvement of camera traps in recent decades has revolutionized biodiversity
monitoring. Despite clear applications in conservation science, camera traps have seldom …

Few species are likely to be so evident that they will always be detected when present.
Failing to allow for the possibility that a target species was present, but undetected, at a site …

Many publications documenting large‐scale trends in the distribution of species make use of
opportunistic citizen data, that is, observations of species collected without standardized …

In ecological modeling of the habitat of a species, it can be prohibitively expensive to
determine species absence. Presence-only data consist of a sample of locations with …

Surveys that record the presence or absence of fauna are used widely in wildlife
management and research. A false absence occurs when an observer fails to record a …

The distribution of a species over space is of central interest in ecology, but species
occurrence does not provide all of the information needed to characterize either the well …

Recently developed spatial capture—recapture (SCR) models represent a major advance
over traditional capture—recapture (CR) models because they yield explicit estimates of …

Habitat loss and fragmentation continue to be major issues affecting the persistence and
conservation of species, but identification of critical habitat remains a challenge. Species …