Incorporating imperfect detection into joint models of communites: A response to Warton et al.
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Abstract
Warton et al. [1] advance community ecology by describing a statistical framework that can jointly model abundances (or distributions) across many taxa to quantify how community properties respond to environmental variables. This framework specifies the effects of both measured and unmeasured (latent) variables on the abundance (or occurrence) of each species. Latent variables are random effects that capture the effects of both missing environmental predictors and correlations in parameter values among different species. As presented in Warton et al., however, the joint modeling framework fails to account for the common problem of detection or measurement errors that always accompany field sampling of abundance or occupancy, and are well known to obscure species- and community-level inferences.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Incorporating imperfect detection into joint models of communites: A response to Warton et al. |
| Series title | Trends in Ecology and Evolution |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.tree.2016.07.009 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Year Published | 2016 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Publisher location | Amsterdam |
| Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
| Description | 2 p. |
| First page | 736 |
| Last page | 737 |
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