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 …

The assessment of species distribution is a first critical phase of biodiversity studies and is
necessary to many disciplines such as biogeography, conservation biology and ecology …

Stream ecosystems harbor many secretive and imperiled species, and studies of vertebrates
in these systems face the challenges of relatively low detection rates and high costs …

A guide to data collection, modeling and inference strategies for biological survey data using
Bayesian and classical statistical methods. This book describes a general and flexible …

Recent technological and methodological advances have revolutionized wildlife monitoring.
Although most biodiversity monitoring initiatives are geared towards focal species of …

The abstract concept of “information” can be quantified and this has led to many important
advances in the analysis of data in the empirical sciences. This text focuses on a science …

Citizen science has the potential to expand the scope and scale of research in ecology and
conservation, but many professional researchers remain skeptical of data produced by …

Camera-traps are a widely applied to monitor wildlife populations. For individually marked
species, capture–recapture models provide robust population estimates, but for unmarked …

Understanding how biodiversity responds to urbanization is challenging, due in part to the
single‐city focus of most urban ecological research. Here, we delineate continent‐scale …

Introduction to WinBUGS for Ecologists introduces applied Bayesian modeling to ecologists
using the highly acclaimed, free WinBUGS software. It offers an understanding of statistical …