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- Citation - Doser J.W., Leuenberger, W., Sillet, T.S., Hallworth, M.T., and Zipkin E.F. (2022) Integrated community occupancy models: A framework to assess occurrence and biodiversity dynamics using multiple data sources. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13811 + Citation - Zipkin E.F. , Doser J.W., Davis C.L., Leuenberger W., Ayebare S., Davis K.L., (2023) Integrated community models: A framework combining multi-species data sources to estimate the status, trends, and dynamics of biodiversity. Journal of Animal Ecoloyg.
- Abstract - We present an "integrated community occupancy model" (ICOM) that unites principles of data integration and hierarchical community modeling to provide inferences on species-specific and community occurrence dynamics using multiple data sources. Using simulations and a case study, we show that the ICOM provides more precise estimates of occurrence dynamics compared to multi-species models using single data sources or integrated single-species models, offering an attractive approach to estimate species and biodiversity metrics. + Abstract - Integrated community models provide an exciting approach to model biological and observational processes for multiple species using multiple data types and sources simultaneously, thus accounting for uncertainty and sampling error within a unified framework. By leveraging the combined benefits of both data integration and community modeling, integrated community models can produce valuable information about both common and rare species as well as community-level dynamics, allowing us to evaluate holistically the effects of global change on biodiversity. We illustrate the framework with a series of worked examples.
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