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Extending Joint Models in Community Ecology : A Response to Beissinger et al.
David I. WartonFrancis K. C. HuiSara TaskinenSteven C. WalkerOtso OvaskainenOtso OvaskainenRobert B. O'haraF. Guillaume Blanchetsubject
0106 biological sciencesta112CommunityComputer science010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyjoint modelsLatent variableTemporal correlation010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesExtension (metaphysics)EconometricsImperfectJoint (geology)Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematicscommunity ecologydescription
The joint modelling of many variables in community ecology is a new and technically challenging area with many opportunities for future developments. The possibility of extending joint models to deal with imperfect detection has been highlighted by Beissinger et al. as an important problem worthy of further investigation [1]. We agree, and previously pointed to this potential extension as an outstanding question [2], alongside models that can estimate phylogenetic repulsion or attraction, nonlinearity in the response to latent variables, and spatial or temporal correlation, because further developments in all these directions are needed.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-01 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution |