Some exciting new functionality in spOccupancy is now available on CRAN including: ✅ Multi-species, multi-season occupancy models ✅Multi-species spatially-varying coefficient occupancy models More details: jeffdoser.com/files/spoccupa…

We estimated that birders spent roughly *half a million dollars* to look for the wayward Steller's Sea-Eagle over only a couple of months! 👀 Very fun paper that represents a collision of worlds between my research life and my birding life!!

5-day workshop by Marc Kéry, Dusit Ngoprasert, Ngumbang Juat on "Applied hierarchical modelling of species distribution and abundance with R package unmarked and spOccupancy" in Bangkok, Thailand. Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Very excited to announce my new R package spAbundance for fitting single-species and multi-species spatially-explicit N-mixture models, distance sampling models, and GLMMs. Includes options for random intercepts/slopes and species correlations. #rstats jeffdoser.com/files/spabunda….

Extremely happy to see my postdoc study coming out in GEB Journal, doi.org/10.1111/geb.13…! We combined different types of hummingbird sightings to improve their range predictions in South America -> a statistically flavored macrostudy 🐦. Here is a quick summary!

Registration is open for a 4-day workshop 24-27 June 2024 @ Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach, Switzerland taught by Marc Kéry and myself on hierarchical spatial modeling of species distributions using spOccupancy and spAbundance. Details here: doserjef.github.io/Switzerland24-…

Interested in single-visit occupancy models? Check out our new paper for some insights on how reliable model estimates are under a variety of simulation scenarios

Belatedly wanted to share our new paper out in Global Change Biology (doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17…). Hopefully useful for people seeking to forecast (or monitor) species distributions or communities! quick thread below (sorry, no time to add graphics....[1/4])

Can we stop looking at histograms of animal diel activity and trusting our gut to classify species diel behavior (e.g., nocturnal)? Yes! Out today in Journal of Animal Ecology we present a research methods guide for the Diel.Niche R package! #openaccess #rstats 1/7 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

🚨New paper! We built spatially-varying coefficient occupancy models in spOccupancy to explore spatially-varying species-environment relationships and quantified variation in max temperature effects on grassland birds in the US Zipkin Lab Dr. Sarah Saunders doi.org/10.1007/s13253…

I'm excited to share that I published a first version of my Statistics 4 Ecologists book with University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. You can now download a (FREE) pdf version of the book here: conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/2…

Just over 3 weeks left to apply for our spatial occupancy/abundance modeling workshop in Switzerland. More details on course content and how to apply here: doserjef.github.io/Switzerland24-….

Thrilled to share our new paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution that introduces the spAbundance R package for fitting a variety of single-species and multi-species spatially explicit abundance models! doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

Super fun application of spAbundance! Thanks for sharing Javi Fernández-López!

New paper out now in Ecology! 😍 A multispecies hierarchical model to integrate count and distance-sampling data Multiple species, multiple datasets, and ONE model to bind them! This was a challenging project & I learned a ton esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Had such a great time talking about hierarchical spatial occupancy and abundance models at Vogelwarte_Science last week in Switzerland with an amazing group of researchers! All workshop lectures and exercises are freely available on GitHub: github.com/doserjef/Switz….

I am beyond excited to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University this fall! More info soon on opportunities for a grad student and postdoc to join the lab!

🚨There is now a "spOccupancy and spAbundance users" mailing list! This will be the primary place to ask questions on using the two R packages going forward. If you use the packages I encourage you to join the group! groups.google.com/g/spocc-spabun…

I will start reviewing applications for a MS or PhD-level position in my lab on September 30. See details below!