Climate change has caused deserts, already defined by climatic extremes, to warm and dry
more rapidly than other ecoregions in the contiguous United States over the last 50 years …

Networks of citizen scientists (CS) have the potential to observe biodiversity and species
distributions at global scales. Yet the adoption of such datasets in conservation science may …

Citizen science, the involvement of volunteers in research, has increased the scale of
ecological field studies with continent-wide, centralized monitoring efforts and, more rarely …

Alien invasive species (AIS) are one of the major causes of biodiversity loss and global
homogenization. Once an AIS becomes established, costs of control can be extremely high …

New technologies are rapidly changing the way we collect, archive, analyze, and share
scientific data. For example, over the next several years it is estimated that more than one …

Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, and monitoring is crucial for
understanding the causal drivers and assessing solutions. Most biodiversity monitoring data …

Genetic data are often used to assess 'population connectivity'because it is difficult to
measure dispersal directly at large spatial scales. Genetic connectivity, however, depends …

Abstract Hidden Markov models (HMMs) and their extensions are attractive methods for
analysing ecological data where noisy, multivariate measurements are made of a hidden …

Biological recording is in essence a very simple concept in which a record is the report of a
species at a physical location at a certain time. The collation of these records into a dataset …

Global declines in biodiversity highlight the need to effectively monitor the density and
distribution of threatened species. In recent years, molecular survey methods detecting DNA …