Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here?

Advances in Microclimate Ecology Arising from Remote Sensing

(2019) Florian Zellweger et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

CoordinateCleaner: standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases

(2019) Alexander Zizka et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments

(2019) Miguel B. Araújo et al.   Science Advances

Biodiversity data integration--The significance of data resolution and domain

(2019) Christian König et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Uncertainty in ensembles of global biodiversity scenarios

(2019) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   Nature Communications

GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography

(2019) Patrick Weigelt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Model averaging in ecology: a review of Bayesian, information-theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference

(2018) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Building up biogeography: Pattern to process

(2018) William D. Pearse et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Continental-scale macrofungal assemblage patterns correlate with climate, soil carbon and nitrogen deposition

(2018) Carrie Andrew et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biological traits explain bryophyte species distributions and responses to forest fragmentation and climatic variation

(2018) Swantje Löbel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

(2018) Thiago F. Rangel et al.   SCIENCE

PLANT DIVERSITY IN OCEANIC ARCHIPELAGOS: REALISTIC PATTERNS EMULATED BY AN AGENT-BASED COMPUTER SIMULATION

(2018) Madli Jõks et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Reaching new heights: can drones replace current methods to study plant population dynamics?

(2018) Jessica Y. L. Tay et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Clade diversification dynamics and the biotic and abiotic controls of speciation and extinction rates

(2018) Robin Aguilée et al.   Nature Communications

Where Newton might have taken ecology

(2018) David J. Currie   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The what, how and why of doing macroecology

(2018) Brian J. McGill   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A phenology-based approach to the classification of Arctic tundra ecosystems in Greenland

(2018) Mojtaba Karami et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models

(2018) Mikael Pontarp et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

(2018) Helge Bruelheide et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Linking species diversification to palaeo-environmental changes: A process-based modelling approach

(2017) Patrice Descombes et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A framework integrating physiology, dispersal and land-use to project species ranges under climate change

(2017) Joel Methorst et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Integrating correlation between traits improves spatial predictions of plant functional composition

(2017) Rafael O. Wüest et al.   OIKOS

Lidar-derived variables as a proxy for fungal species richness and composition in temperate Northern Europe

(2017) Henrik Thers et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Big data integration: Pan-European fungal species observations' assembly for addressing contemporary questions in ecology and global change biology

(2017) Carrie Andrew et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

Mechanistic simulation models in macroecology and biogeography: state-of-art and prospects

(2016) Juliano Sarmento Cabral et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

(2016) Carsten Meyer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trait biogeography of marine copepods - an analysis across scales

(2016) Philipp Brun et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Benchmarking novel approaches for modelling species range dynamics

(2016) Damaris Zurell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Range geometry and socio-economics dominate species-level biases in occurrence information

(2016) Carsten Meyer et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental predictors of species richness in forest landscapes: abiotic factors versus vegetation structure

(2016) Florian Zellweger et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ultra-fine grain landscape-scale quantification of dryland vegetation structure with drone-acquired structure-from-motion photogrammetry

(2016) Andrew M. Cunliffe et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change

(2016) M. C. Urban et al.   SCIENCE

When Climate Reshuffles Competitors: A Call for Experimental Macroecology

(2016) Jake M. Alexander et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Plate tectonics drive tropical reef biodiversity dynamics

(2016) Fabien Leprieur et al.   Nature Communications

Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Micro-Uavs, Drones) in Plant Ecology

(2016) Mitchell B. Cruzan et al.   Applications in Plant Sciences

Seven Shortfalls that Beset Large-Scale Knowledge of Biodiversity

(2015) Joaquín Hortal et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Novel competitors shape species’ responses to climate change

(2015) Jake M. Alexander et al.   NATURE

Deep learning

(2015) Yann LeCun et al.   NATURE

Drone remote sensing for forestry research and practices

(2015) Lina Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

Landscape structure and genetic architecture jointly impact rates of niche evolution

(2014) Katja Schiffers et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Trends in big data analytics

(2014) Karthik Kambatla et al.   JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

Understanding co-occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM)

(2014) Laura J. Pollock et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

MotionMeerkat: integrating motion video detection and ecological monitoring

(2014) Ben G. Weinstein   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

More than the sum of the parts: forest climate response from joint species distribution models

(2013) James S. Clark et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A road map for integrating eco-evolutionary processes into biodiversity models

(2013) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Data mining with big data

(2013) Xindong Wu et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING

Analysing and mapping species range dynamics using occupancy models

(2013) Marc Kéry et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Assessing Species Distribution Using Google Street View: A Pilot Study with the Pine Processionary Moth

(2013) Jérôme Rousselet et al.   PLoS One

What's on the horizon for macroecology?

(2012) Jan Beck et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Linking ecological niche, community ecology and biogeography: insights from a mechanistic niche model

(2012) Juliano Sarmento Cabral et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Downscaling of species distribution models: 
a hierarchical approach

(2012) Petr Keil et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

taxonstand: An r package for species names standardisation in vegetation databases

(2012) Luis Cayuela et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

From diversity indices to community assembly processes: a test with simulated data

(2011) T. Münkemüller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information

(2011) M. Hilbert et al.   SCIENCE

Making more out of sparse data: hierarchical modeling of species communities

(2010) Otso Ovaskainen et al.   ECOLOGY

Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

(2010) Derek P. Tittensor et al.   NATURE

Semi-automatic classification of tree species in different forest ecosystems by spectral and geometric variables derived from Airborne Digital Sensor (ADS40) and RC30 data

(2010) L.T. Waser et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Uncertainty in ensemble forecasting of species distribution

(2009) LAËTITIA BUISSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Estimating demographic models for the range dynamics of plant species

(2009) Juliano S. Cabral et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The use of airborne lidar to assess avian species diversity, density, and occurrence in a pine/aspen forest

(2008) Rick Clawges et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT