Authors
Laura J Pollock, Reid Tingley, William K Morris, Nick Golding, Robert B O'Hara, Kirsten M Parris, Peter A Vesk, Michael A McCarthy
Publication date
2014/5
Journal
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Volume
5
Issue
5
Pages
397-406
Description
  1. 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 community ecology – approach this problem differently. Habitat modellers often use species distribution models (SDMs) to quantify the relationship between species’ and their environments without considering potential biotic interactions. Community ecologists, on the other hand, tend to focus on biotic interactions and, in observational studies, use co‐occurrence patterns to identify ecological processes. Here, we describe a joint species distribution model (JSDM) that integrates these distinct observational approaches by incorporating species co‐occurrence data into a SDM.
  2. JSDMs estimate distributions of multiple species simultaneously and allow decomposition of species co‐occurrence patterns into components describing shared …
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