Novel community data in ecology -- properties and prospects
Abstract
New technologies for acquiring biological information such as eDNA, acoustic or optical sensors, make it possible to generate spatial community observations at unprecedented scales. The potential of these novel community data to standardize community observations at high spatial, temporal, and taxonomic resolution and at large spatial scale ('many rows and many columns') has been widely discussed, but so far, there has been little integration of these data with ecological models and theory. Here, we review these developments and highlight emerging solutions, focusing on statistical methods for analyzing novel community data, in particular joint species distribution models; the new ecological questions that can be answered with these data; and the potential implications of these developments for policy and conservation.
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@article{arxiv.2401.10860,
title = {Novel community data in ecology -- properties and prospects},
author = {Florian Hartig and Nerea Abrego and Alex Bush and Jonathan M. Chase and Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita and Mathew A. Leibold and Otso Ovaskainen and Loïc Pellissier and Maximilian Pichler and Giovanni Poggiato and Laura Pollock and Sara Si-Moussi and Wilfried Thuiller and Duarte S. Viana and David I. Warton and Damaris Zurell and Douglas W. Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.10860},
year = {2024}
}