nicholasjclark / phylo_func_trends

Using phylogenetic and functional relationships to inform nonlinear trend estimates from long-term biodiversity data

nicholasjclark/phylo_func_trends Issues

Consolidate theoretical predictions regarding the potential informativeness of phylogenetic / functional relationships on trend estimates, particularly in regards to spatial and temporal scales
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Prepare scoring scripts and justify scoring rules to prioritize
Updated 2 months ago
Determine appropriate cross-validation schemes, considering blocking over space, time and phylogeny / functional dendrogram, to evaluate candidate models
Updated 2 months ago
For candidate datasets, determine appropriate steps for cleaning and preparing data. We don't want too many shortcuts here (i.e. blindly aggregating with no justification for this), it would be better to think through the data generating process for each dataset
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Identify appropriate multi-species datasets
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Gather information on Gaussian Markov Random Fields and their potential applications in complex nonlinear effect estimates (see for example this work by Rue and Held and this post)
Updated 2 months ago1
Gather information on the types of models / analyses that are commonly used for large multispecies datasets to inform decisions or calculations of indices (for example, how do US and Canadian Governments use NA BBS data? And could the proposed models make any impact on these pipelines?)
Updated 2 months ago
Review literature to understand approaches that have been used to leverage phylogenetic or functional relationships to inform population estimates
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