Abstract The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) seeks to facilitate ecological
prediction at a continental scale by measuring processes that drive change and responses …

Monitoring programs are evaluation procedures designed to assess the state and evolution
of a system over time. In particular, environmental monitoring programs are those that are …

In recent years, extreme values analysis (EVA) has started to benefit from methods that allow
for dependence between observations. This is important for many phenomena (eg ozone …

Rare species present challenges to data collection, particularly when the species is spatially
clustered over large areas, such that the encounter frequency of the organism is low …

Moose (Alces alces) are a species of management concern in New York State. In some New
England states, moose populations are known to be in decline due to mortality from parasitic …

Many predominant spatial methods for binary data use a latent Gaussian process to capture
spatial dependence. However, this may not be appropriate for rare data because these …