Building useful models of species distributions requires attention to several important issues,
one being imperfect detection of species. Data sets of species detections are likely to suffer
from false absence records. Depending on the type of survey, false positive records can also …

The use of complex statistical models has recently increased substantially in the context of
species distribution behavior. This complexity has made the inferential and predictive
processes challenging to perform. The Bayesian approach has become a good option to …

Freshwater ecosystems harbor specialized and vulnerable biodiversity, and the prediction of
potential impacts of freshwater biodiversity to environmental change requires knowledge of
the geographic and environmental distribution of taxa. To date, however, such quantitative …

Discard management needs to draw on scientific research and advice, usually supported by
specific statistical modeling analysis. A wide range of statistical analysis methods were
applied to fishery data in an attempt to distinguish factors that influence the species discard …

Imperfect detectability in animal studies has been an acknowledged problem for several
decades. A number of analytical approaches (eg, capture–mark–recapture, distance
sampling, occupancy analyses), have been developed to deal with the problem and …

Many developing countries lack information to manage their endangered species, urging the
need for affordable and reliable information. We used Bayesian hierarchical spatial models,
with oceanographic variables, to predict the distribution range of Epinephelus marginatus …

One of the main objectives of the Second European Breeding Bird Atlas (EBBA2) is to
provide maps showing bird occurrence at a 10 x 10 km resolution for as many of the
European breeding bird species as possible. With almost 120,000 10 x 10 km squares …

Freshwater biodiversity is declining, despite national and international efforts to manage and
protect freshwater ecosystems. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has been proposed
as an approach that could more efficiently and adaptively balance ecological and societal …

Aim Systematic conservation planning is vital for allocating protected areas given the spatial
distribution of conservation features, such as species. Due to incomplete species
inventories, species distribution models (SDMs) are often used for predicting species' habitat …

This is a vignette for the R package CARBayes version 5.0, and is an updated version of a
paper in the Journal of Statistical Software in 2013 Volume 55 Issue 13 by the same author.
The package implements a class of univariate and multivariate spatial generalised linear …