Bernd Gruber

TL;DR: It was found that methods specifically designed for collinearity, such as latent variable methods and tree based models, did not outperform the traditional GLM and threshold-based pre-selection and the value of GLM in combination with penalised methods and thresholds when omitted variables are considered in the final interpretation.

TL;DR: A new, free software is introduced calculating a large spectrum of network indices, visualizing bipartite networks and generating null models, and enables ecologists to readily contrast their findings with null model expectations for many different questions, thus separating statistical inevitability from ecological process.

TL;DR: The new R-package bipartite, introduced here, provides functions to viualise webs and calculate a series of indices commonly used to describe pattern in ecological webs, focusing on webs consisting of only two trophic levels, e.g. pollination webs or predator-prey-webs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of road conditions on the persistence of animal populations and found that road conditions affect animal populations detrimentally in four ways: they decrease habitat amount and quality, enhance mortality due to collisions with vehicles, prevent access to resources on the other side of the road, and subdivide animal populations into smaller and more vulnerable fractions.

TL;DR: PopGenReport is a new R package that simplifies performing population genetics analyses in R, through the use of a new report‐generating function, that includes new R functions that simplify the importation of data from a spreadsheet file.