Search Results - "Foster, Scott D."

Global patterns of change and variation in sea surface temperature and chlorophyll a by Dunstan, Piers K., Foster, Scott D., King, Edward, Risbey, James, O’Kane, Terence J., Monselesan, Didier, Hobday, Alistair J., Hartog, Jason R., Thompson, Peter A.

“…Changes over the scale of decades in oceanic environments present a range of challenges for management and utilisation of ocean resources. Here we investigate…”
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Sample size requirements for genetic studies on yellowfin tuna by Foster, Scott D, Feutry, Pierre, Grewe, Peter, Davies, Campbell

“…In population genetics, the amount of information for an analytical task is governed by the number of individuals sampled and the amount of genetic information…”
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Model‐based approaches to unconstrained ordination by Hui, Francis K.C., Taskinen, Sara, Pledger, Shirley, Foster, Scott D., Warton, David I., O'Hara, Robert B.

“…Summary Unconstrained ordination is commonly used in ecology to visualize multivariate data, in particular, to visualize the main trends between different…”
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Tuning Parameter Selection for the Adaptive Lasso Using ERIC by Hui, Francis K. C., Warton, David I., Foster, Scott D.

“…The adaptive Lasso is a commonly applied penalty for variable selection in regression modeling. Like all penalties though, its performance depends critically…”
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Monitoring the resilience of a no-take marine reserve to a range extending species using benthic imagery by Perkins, Nicholas R, Hosack, Geoffrey R, Foster, Scott D, Monk, Jacquomo, Barrett, Neville S

“…Global climate change is driving the redistribution of marine species and thereby potentially restructuring endemic communities. Understanding how localised…”
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Model-based mapping of assemblages for ecology and conservation management: A case study of demersal fish on the Kerguelen Plateau by Hill, Nicole A., Foster, Scott D., Duhamel, Guy, Welsford, Dirk, Koubbi, Philippe, Johnson, Craig R.

“…Aim: Quantifying biological assemblages and their environment is a fundamental, yet statistically challenging task in conservation ecology. Here, we use a…”
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Spatiotemporal joint species distribution modelling: A basis function approach by Hui, Francis K. C., Warton, David I., Foster, Scott D., Haak, Christopher R.

“…We introduce community‐level basis function models (CBFMs) as an approach for spatiotemporal joint distribution modelling. CBFMs can be viewed as related to…”
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Model based grouping of species across environmental gradients by Dunstan, Piers K., Foster, Scott D., Darnell, Ross

“…We present a novel approach to the statistical analysis and prediction of multispecies data. The approach allows the simultaneous grouping and quantification…”
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Predicting the spread and persistence of genetically modified dominant sterile male mosquitoes by Ickowicz, Adrien, Foster, Scott D, Hosack, Geoffrey R, Hayes, Keith R

“…Reproductive containment provides an opportunity to implement a staged-release strategy for genetic control of malaria vectors, in particular allowing…”
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Twenty years of high-resolution sea surface temperature imagery around Australia: inter-annual and annual variability by Foster, Scott D, Griffin, David A, Dunstan, Piers K

“…The physical climate defines a significant portion of the habitats in which biological communities and species reside. It is important to quantify these…”
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Stop ignoring map uncertainty in biodiversity science and conservation policy by Jansen, Jan, Woolley, Skipton N. C., Dunstan, Piers K., Foster, Scott D., Hill, Nicole A., Haward, Marcus, Johnson, Craig R.

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Order selection in finite mixture models: complete or observed likelihood information criteria? by HUI, FRANCIS, WARTON, DAVID I., FOSTER, SCOTT D.

“…Choosing the number of components in a finite mixture model is a challenging task. In this article, we study the behaviour of information criteria for…”
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Designing Monitoring Programs for Marine Protected Areas Within an Evidence Based Decision Making Paradigm by Hayes, Keith R., Hosack, Geoffrey R., Lawrence, Emma, Hedge, Paul, Barrett, Neville S., Przeslawski, Rachel, Caley, M. Julian, Foster, Scott D.

“…The Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM) paradigm encourages managers to base their decisions on the strongest available evidence, but it has been criticised…”
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MULTI-SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELING USING PENALIZED MIXTURE OF REGRESSIONS by Hui, Francis K. C., Warton, David I., Foster, Scott D.

“…Multi-species distribution modeling, which relates the occurrence of multiple species to environmental variables, is an important tool used by ecologists for…”
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Identifying hotspots for biodiversity management using rank abundance distributions by Dunstan, Piers K., Bax, Nicholas J., Foster, Scott D., Williams, Alan, Althaus, Franziska

“…Aim: Identification of biodiversity hotspots has typically relied on species richness. We extend this approach to include prediction to regional scales of…”
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MBHdesign: An R‐package for efficient spatial survey designs by Foster, Scott D., Goslee, Sarah

“…A considered survey design will generate data that are representative of the population that the sample is taken from. All good design takes is a little…”
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Accounting for location error in Kalman filters: integrating animal borne sensor data into assimilation schemes by Sengupta, Aritra, Foster, Scott D, Patterson, Toby A, Bravington, Mark

“…Data assimilation is a crucial aspect of modern oceanography. It allows the future forecasting and backward smoothing of ocean state from the noisy…”
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A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels by Norberg, Anna, Abrego, Nerea, Blanchet, F. Guillaume, Adler, Frederick R., Anderson, Barbara J., Anttila, Jani, Araujo, Miguel B., Dallas, Tad, Dunson, David, Elith, Jane, Foster, Scott D., Fox, Richard, Franklin, Janet, Godsoe, William, Guisan, Antoine, O'Hara, Bob, Hill, Nicole A., Holt, Robert D., Hui, Francis K. C., Husby, Magne, Kålås, John Atle, Lehikoinen, Aleksi, Luoto, Miska, Mod, Heidi K., Newell, Graeme, Renner, Ian, Roslin, Tomas, Soininen, Janne, Thuiller, Wilfried, Vanhatalo, Jarno, Warton, David, White, Matt, Zimmermann, Niklaus E., Gravel, Dominique, Ovaskainen, Otso

“…A large array of species distribution model (SDM) approaches has been developed for explaining and predicting the occurrences of individual species or species…”
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Model-based thinking for community ecology by Warton, David I., Foster, Scott D., De'ath, Glenn, Stoklosa, Jakub, Dunstan, Piers K.

“…In this paper, a case is made for the use of model-based approaches for the analysis of community data. This involves the direct specification of a statistical…”
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Spatially Clustered Survey Designs by Foster, Scott D., Lawrence, Emma, Hoskins, Andrew J.

“…Direct observation, through surveys, underpins nearly all aspects of environmental sciences. Survey design theory has evolved to make sure that sampling is as…”
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