Statistical ecology comes of age.
Biol Lett
; 10(12): 20140698, 2014 Dec.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25540151
ABSTRACT
The desire to predict the consequences of global environmental change has been the driver towards more realistic models embracing the variability and uncertainties inherent in ecology. Statistical ecology has gelled over the past decade as a discipline that moves away from describing patterns towards modelling the ecological processes that generate these patterns. Following the fourth International Statistical Ecology Conference (1-4 July 2014) in Montpellier, France, we analyse current trends in statistical ecology. Important advances in the analysis of individual movement, and in the modelling of population dynamics and species distributions, are made possible by the increasing use of hierarchical and hidden process models. Exciting research perspectives include the development of methods to interpret citizen science data and of efficient, flexible computational algorithms for model fitting. Statistical ecology has come of age it now provides a general and mathematically rigorous framework linking ecological theory and empirical data.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Models, Statistical
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Ecology
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
Biol Lett
Journal subject:
BIOLOGIA
Year:
2014
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
France