Joint species distribution modelling with the r-package Hmsc.

ABSTRACT: Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM) is becoming an increasingly popular statistical method for analysing data in community ecology. Hierarchical Modelling of Species Communities (HMSC) is a general and flexible framework for fitting JSDMs. HMSC allows the integration of community ecology data with data on environmental covariates, species traits, phylogenetic relationships and the spatio-temporal context of the study, providing predictive insights into community assembly processes from non-manipulative observational data of species communities.The full range of functionality of HMSC has remained restricted to Matlab users only. To make HMSC accessible to the wider community of ecologists, we introduce Hmsc 3.0, a user-friendly r implementation.We illustrate the use of the package b

SUBMITTER: Tikhonov G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7074067 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature