Outstanding challenges in the transferability of ecological models

KL Yates, PJ Bouchet, MJ Caley, K Mengersen… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
Predictive models are central to many scientific disciplines and vital for informing
management in a rapidly changing world. However, limited understanding of the accuracy …

Conceptual and methodological advances in habitat‐selection modeling: guidelines for ecology and evolution

JM Northrup, E Vander Wal, M Bonar… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat selection is a fundamental animal behavior that shapes a wide range of ecological
processes, including animal movement, nutrient transfer, trophic dynamics and population …

A 'How to'guide for interpreting parameters in habitat‐selection analyses

J Fieberg, J Signer, B Smith… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat‐selection analyses allow researchers to link animals to their environment via habitat‐
selection or step‐selection functions, and are commonly used to address questions related …

Accounting for individual‐specific variation in habitat‐selection studies: Efficient estimation of mixed‐effects models using Bayesian or frequentist computation

S Muff, J Signer, J Fieberg - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Popular frameworks for studying habitat selection include resource‐selection functions
(RSFs) and step‐selection functions (SSFs), estimated using logistic and conditional logistic …

Applications of step-selection functions in ecology and conservation

H Thurfjell, S Ciuti, MS Boyce - Movement ecology, 2014 - Springer
Recent progress in positioning technology facilitates the collection of massive amounts of
sequential spatial data on animals. This has led to new opportunities and challenges when …

Practical guidance on characterizing availability in resource selection functions under a use–availability design

JM Northrup, MB Hooten, CR Anderson Jr… - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat selection is a fundamental aspect of animal ecology, the understanding of which is
critical to management and conservation. Global positioning system data from animals allow …

Relative selection strength: Quantifying effect size in habitat‐and step‐selection inference

T Avgar, SR Lele, JL Keim, MS Boyce - Ecology and evolution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat‐selection analysis lacks an appropriate measure of the ecological significance of the
statistical estimates—a practical interpretation of the magnitude of the selection coefficients …

Comparative interpretation of count, presence–absence and point methods for species distribution models

G Aarts, J Fieberg… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The need to understand the processes shaping population distributions has resulted in a
vast increase in the diversity of spatial wildlife data, leading to the development of many …

Managing biological control services through multi‐trophic trait interactions: review and guidelines for implementation at local and landscape scales

DJ Perović, S Gámez‐Virués, DA Landis… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological studies are increasingly moving towards trait‐based approaches, as the
evidence mounts that functions, as opposed to taxonomy, drive ecosystem service delivery …

Integrating citizen science data with expert surveys increases accuracy and spatial extent of species distribution models

OJ Robinson, V Ruiz‐Gutierrez… - Diversity and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Information on species' habitat associations and distributions, across a wide range of
spatial and temporal scales, is a fundamental source of ecological knowledge. However …