Technological advances have enabled a new class of multivariate models for ecology, with
the potential now to specify a statistical model for abundances jointly across many taxa, to …

Negative binomial modelling is one of the most commonly used statistical tools for analysing
count data in ecology and biodiversity research. This is not surprising given the prevalence …

Joint species distribution modelling (JSDM) is a fast-developing field and promises to
revolutionise how data on ecological communities are analysed and interpreted. Written for …

Community ecology aims to understand what factors determine the assembly and dynamics
of species assemblages at different spatiotemporal scales. To facilitate the integration …

A large array of species distribution model (SDM) approaches has been developed for
explaining and predicting the occurrences of individual species or species assemblages …

Geostatistical data—spatially referenced observations related to some continuous spatial
phenomenon—are ubiquitous in ecology and can reveal ecological processes and inform …

Fisheries scientists provide stock, ecosystem, habitat, and climate assessments to support
interdisplinary fisheries management in the US and worldwide. These assessment activities …

Aim Recent studies increasingly use statistical methods to infer biotic interactions from co‐
occurrence information at a large spatial scale. However, disentangling biotic interactions …

Probabilistic forecasts of species distribution and abundance require models that
accommodate the range of ecological data, including a joint distribution of multiple species …

Several approaches have been developed over the last decade to simultaneously estimate
distribution or density for multiple species (eg “joint species distribution” or “multispecies …