Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the
effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements have not been estimated across …

Despite much criticism, black-or-white null-hypothesis significance testing with an arbitrary P-value
cutoff still is the standard way to report scientific findings. One obstacle to progress is …

… At present, the computational method most commonly used for fitting Bayesian models is
Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique (Robert and Casella 2004). Variable …

Demand for models in biodiversity assessments is rising, but which models are adequate
for the task? We propose a set of best-practice standards and detailed guidelines enabling …

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 …

A primary goal of ecology is to understand the fundamental processes underlying the
geographic distributions of species. Two major strands of ecology – habitat modelling and …

Comparative studies of quantitative genetic and neutral marker differentiation have provided
means for assessing the relative roles of natural selection and random genetic drift in …

Aim Biotic interactions – within guilds or across trophic levels – have widely been ignored in
species distribution models (SDMs). This synthesis outlines the development of ‘species …

Comparative studies of the divergence of quantitative traits and neutral molecular markers,
known as Q ST –F ST comparisons, provide a means for researchers to distinguish between …

We investigated some of the causes of ground beetle decline using atlas data from Belgium,
Denmark and the Netherlands, countries in which natural environments have all but …