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Ten Simple Rules for Curating and Facilitating Small Workshops by McInerny, Greg J

“…Was it the organizers, attendees (see Rule 3), goals, size, subject matter, timetabling, activities, venue, location, seating plan, seats, timetable, time…”
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Information visualisation for science and policy: engaging users and avoiding bias by McInerny, Greg J., Chen, Min, Freeman, Robin, Gavaghan, David, Meyer, Miriah, Rowland, Francis, Spiegelhalter, David J., Stefaner, Moritz, Tessarolo, Geizi, Hortal, Joaquin

“…•Science and policy rely on reliable and unbiased communications.•Visualisations and graphics are a powerful means to communicate.•Ecology lacks appropriate…”
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Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents by Kissling, W. D., Dormann, Carsten F., Groeneveld, Jürgen, Hickler, Thomas, Kühn, Ingolf, McInerny, Greg J., Montoya, José M., Römermann, Christine, Schiffers, Katja, Schurr, Frank M., Singer, Alexander, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Zimmermann, Niklaus E., O'Hara, Robert B.

“…Aim: Biotic interactions — within guilds or across trophic levels — have widely been ignored in species distribution models (SDMs). This synthesis outlines the…”
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Ditch the niche - is the niche a useful concept in ecology or species distribution modelling? by McInerny, Greg J., Etienne, Rampal S.

“…In this first of three papers we examine the use of niche concepts in ecology and especially in species distribution modelling (SDM). This paper deliberately…”
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Stitch the niche - a practical philosophy and visual schematic for the niche concept by McInerny, Greg J., Etienne, Rampal S.

“…By over-focusing on precise definitions, ecology has produced a confused idea of the niche concept. This, our second paper, develops a practical philosophy for…”
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Ten simple rules for effective computational research by Osborne, James M, Bernabeu, Miguel O, Bruna, Maria, Calderhead, Ben, Cooper, Jonathan, Dalchau, Neil, Dunn, Sara-Jane, Fletcher, Alexander G, Freeman, Robin, Groen, Derek, Knapp, Bernhard, McInerny, Greg J, Mirams, Gary R, Pitt-Francis, Joe, Sengupta, Biswa, Wright, David W, Yates, Christian A, Gavaghan, David J, Emmott, Stephen, Deane, Charlotte

“…  In particular, the use and development of software tools is becoming vital for investigating scientific hypotheses, and a wide range of scientists are…”
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Pitch the niche - taking responsibility for the concepts we use in ecology and species distribution modelling by McInerny, Greg J., Etienne, Rampal S.

“…In a discussion it is often easier to staunchly reject or offer resolute support for an idea. This third paper on the niche concept aims to develop a balanced…”
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‘Niche’ or ‘distribution’ modelling? A response to Warren by McInerny, Greg J., Etienne, Rampal S.

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Fine‐scale environmental variation in species distribution modelling: regression dilution, latent variables and neighbourly advice by McInerny, Greg J., Purves, Drew W.

“…Summary 1. Developing the next‐generation of species distribution modelling (SDM) requires solutions to a number of widely recognised problems. Here, we…”
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Integrated assessment models for ecologists: the present and the future by Harfoot, Michael, Tittensor, Derek P., Newbold, Tim, McInerny, Greg, Smith, Matthew J., Scharlemann, Jörn P. W.

“…Aim Human impacts on the biosphere are a matter of urgent and growing concern, with ecologists increasingly being asked to project biodiversity futures. The…”
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Ten simple rules for a successful cross-disciplinary collaboration by Knapp, Bernhard, Bardenet, Rémi, Bernabeu, Miguel O, Bordas, Rafel, Bruna, Maria, Calderhead, Ben, Cooper, Jonathan, Fletcher, Alexander G, Groen, Derek, Kuijper, Bram, Lewis, Joanna, McInerny, Greg, Minssen, Timo, Osborne, James, Paulitschke, Verena, Pitt-Francis, Joe, Todoric, Jelena, Yates, Christian A, Gavaghan, David, Deane, Charlotte M

“…  Regulators and policy-makers have realized the power of such collaborations, for example, in the 80 billion Euro "Horizon 2020" EU Framework Programme for…”
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Parameter and uncertainty estimation for process-oriented population and distribution models: data, statistics and the niche by Marion, Glenn, McInerny, Greg J., Pagel, Jörn, Catterall, Stephen, Cook, Alex R., Hartig, Florian, O'Hara, Robert B.

“…The spatial distribution of a species is determined by dynamic processes such as reproduction, mortality and dispersal. Conventional static species…”
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Significance of Sighting Rate in Inferring Extinction and Threat by McINERNY, GREG J., ROBERTS, DAVID L., DAVY, ANTHONY J., CRIBB, PHILLIP J.

“…We are now entering a time of immense environmental upheaval in which, increasingly, experts are required to provide conservation assessments. Quantitative…”
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When is a species extinct? Quantitative inference of threat and extinction from herbarium data by Roberts, David L., McInerny, Greg J.

“…We are now entering a time of immense environ- mental upheaval were, increasingly, experts are required to provide conservation assessments. …”
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moveHMM: an R package for the statistical modelling of animal movement data using hidden Markov models by Michelot, Théo, Langrock, Roland, Patterson, Toby A., McInerny, Greg

“…Summary Due to the substantial progress in tracking technology, recent years have seen an explosion in the amount of movement data being collected. This has…”
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iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity (Hill numbers) by Hsieh, T. C., Ma, K. H., Chao, Anne, McInerny, Greg

“…Summary Hill numbers (or the effective number of species) have been increasingly used to quantify the species/taxonomic diversity of an assemblage. The…”
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ggtree: an r package for visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees with their covariates and other associated data by Yu, Guangchuang, Smith, David K., Zhu, Huachen, Guan, Yi, Lam, Tommy Tsan‐Yuk, McInerny, Greg

“…Summary We present an r package, ggtree, which provides programmable visualization and annotation of phylogenetic trees. ggtree can read more tree file formats…”
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Troubling Trends in Scientific Software Use by Joppa, Lucas N., McInerny, Greg, Harper, Richard, Salido, Lara, Takeda, Kenji, O'Hara, Kenton, Gavaghan, David, Emmott, Stephen

“…"Blind trust" is dangerous when choosing software to support research. Software pervades every domain of science ( 1 – 3 ), perhaps nowhere more decisively…”
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Co-designing grounded visualisations of the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enable urban sustainability transformations by Cámara-Menoyo, Carlos, Porto de Albuquerque, João, Suchomska, Joanna, Tregonning, Grant, McInerny, Greg

“…In the past few years, the Food-Water-Energy (FWE) Nexus has emerged as a key concept to address the complex relationships and interdependencies between food,…”
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Scientists and software - surveying the species distribution modelling community by Ahmed, Sadia E., McInerny, Greg, O'Hara, Kenton, Harper, Richard, Salido, Lara, Emmott, Stephen, Joppa, Lucas N.

“…Aim Software use is ubiquitous in the species distribution modelling (SDM) domain; nearly every scientist working on SDM either uses or develops specialist SDM…”
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