Week 10

Day 1

Today

In Class Discussion led by Ryan and Lindsay: link

In Class Discussion of Guillera-Arroita et al. 2015

• What is a SDM?

• What are they used for?

• What are the types of data used and how does that change the inference/predictions?

• What are the three joint probabilities that determine whether a site is recorded as a detection in a data set?

• What is the difference/importance of being able to estimate occurrence probability and occurrence relative likelihood?

• What are some specific model types or algorithms commonly used for fitting a SDM?

Assigned

• Readings for next class:
  • Kery and Kellner ch20
  • Manica et al. 2019
• Background Reading (not required):
  • Madsen and Royle 2023
  • Kery 2018
  • Link et al 2018
  • Barker et al 2018

Day 2 (lab)

Today

• Downloads: Files

• Install R packages:

# CRAN packages
install.packages(c("VGAM"))

Assigned

• Readings for next class:
  • Prochazka et al. 2023
  • Warrier et al. 2021