The past decade has seen an explosion in the development and application of models
aimed at estimating species occurrence and occupancy dynamics while accounting for …

The ecology of infectious disease in wildlife has become a pivotal theme in animal and
public health. Studies of infectious disease ecology rely on robust surveillance of pathogens …

The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) to detect species in aquatic environments such as
ponds and streams is a powerful new technique with many benefits. However, species …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling is prone to both false‐positive and false‐negative
errors. We review statistical methods to account for such errors in the analysis of eDNA data …

Accurate knowledge of species occurrence is fundamental to a wide variety of ecological,
evolutionary and conservation applications. Assessing the presence or absence of species …

The occurrence of false positive detections in presence–absence data, even when they
occur infrequently, can lead to severe bias when estimating species occupancy patterns …

Parasites, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protists, helminths, and arthropods, are
ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. Consequently, hosts are frequently infected with more …

The contribution of wildlife species to pathogen maintenance in multi-host communities has
seldom been quantified. To assess the relative contribution of the main wildlife hosts of …

Psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) has emerged in recent years as a major threat
to wild parrot populations and is an increasing concern to aviculturists and managers of …

Abstract Knowledge of the processes favouring the establishment of exotic parasites is poor.
Herein, we test the characteristics of successful exotic parasites that have co‐established in …