The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is deploying instrumentation and collecting samples on a continental spatial scale planned to operate for 30 years starting in 2018. There are five ...

1. Model-based distance sampling is commonly used to understand spatial variation in the density of wildlife species. The standard approach assumes that individuals are distributed uniformly and ...

Beta diversity, the compositional variation among communities or assemblages, is crucial to understanding the principles of diversity assembly. The mean pairwise proportional dissimilarity expresses ...