Identifying multispecies synchrony in response to environmental covariates.

ABSTRACT: The importance of multispecies models for understanding complex ecological processes and interactions is beginning to be realized. Recent developments, such as those by Lahoz-Monfort et al. (2011), have enabled synchrony in demographic parameters across multiple species to be explored. Species in a similar environment would be expected to be subject to similar exogenous factors, although their response to each of these factors may be quite different. The ability to group species together according to how they respond to a particular measured covariate may be of particular interest to ecologists. We fit a multispecies model to two sets of similar species of garden bird monitored under the British Trust for Ornithology's Garden Bird Feeding Survey. Posterior model probabilities were estimate

SUBMITTER: Swallow B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5167035 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature