Climate change is a pervasive threat to biodiversity. While range shifts are a known
consequence of climate warming contributing to regional community change, less is known …

Opportunistic citizen science produces large amounts of primary biodiversity data but is
underutilized in the conservation and management of protected areas despite these areas' …

Presence-only biodiversity data are increasingly relied on in biodiversity, ecology, and
conservation research, driven by growing digital infrastructures that support open data …

“It is like the fire of a torch: If hundreds or thousands of people would come each with a torch
to ignite by that flame, each torch they have ignited from the original one could be used to …

Direct observation, through surveys, underpins nearly all aspects of environmental sciences.
Survey design theory has evolved to make sure that sampling is as efficient as possible …

The natural world is under unprecedented and accelerating pressure. Much work on
understanding resilience to local and global environmental change has, so far, focussed on …

Marine imaging studies have unique constraints on the data collected requiring a tool for
defining the biological scope to facilitate data discovery, quality evaluation, sharing and …

Joint species distribution models (JSDM) are among the most important statistical tools in
community ecology. However, existing JSDMs cannot model mutual exclusion between …

Variance partitioning is a common tool for statistical analysis and interpretation in both
observational and experimental studies in ecology. Its popularity has led to a proliferation of …

Meeting the challenge of the growing biodiversity crisis requires high quality biodiversity
knowledge integrated across scales from local to international. But despite rapid …