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PhD project: How interactions between predators, parasites, and the environment influence the population dynamics of a cyclical endemic vole.

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Masters project: Developing non-invasive monitoring methods and models for small mammal populations.

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There are a bunch of interaction models out there, when should you think about using this one? . Check out our flow diagram to help you decide! (13/13). Please share widely and contact me if you can't access the paper!

If you are interested and want to learn more, please check out our new open access paper in @ESAEcology:. Huge thank you to the dream team on this @BenCAugustine @andyroyle_pwrc and @Fuller_Lab. (12/13).

We then applied the new model to a case study of interactions between coyote, fisher, and marten in northern New York. We detect interactions between species that we did not detect using co-occurence models! (11/13)

We ran a bunch of simulation studys to explore inference of modeling interactions as a function occupancy vs abundance, and to explore when, and where the abundance-mediated interaction model works well! (10/13).

What I think is really cool here is the variable ecological contexts of use - from intraguild interactions to parasite- or predator- mediated competition through to trophic cascades. (9/13).

What if you are interested in interactions between more than two species? No problem, more species, more sub models. (8/13).

Our solution was to develop a framework that explicitly considers species abundance using detection/non-detection data, leveraging well established occupancy and Royle-Nichols models. (7/13)

Modelling interactions as function of occupancy may be useful when interactions are so strong that the presence of one sp. predictably results in the exclusion of another, but this is v rare. What to do in the common scenario where interactions are mediated by abundance? (6/13)

But when is modelling co-occurrence of species useful?. Check out these two scenarios thinking about interactions between foxes and coyotes. In which one might we get useful inference thinking about interactions as a function of occupancy? . (5/13)

There are a number of models which motivated by field observations of interactions can be used to model interactions. My fav is the Rota multi-species model. The heart of this co-occurrence model is a state model for estimating the latent occupancy state of a site. (4/13)

The difficulties of scaling up local observations of interactions between species to landscape-scales are exemplified when you consider that interactions vary in their strength and direction depending on habitat, community composition, and abundance of species of interest. (3/13)

Ecologists spend alot of time trying to understand species interactions. Species interactions are key in driving wildlife distribution and abundance patterns at both local and landscape-scales. But demonstrating the role of interactions in ecosystems is non-trivial. (2/13)