Tamara Münkemüller

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: Phylogenetic signal is the tendency of related species to resemble each other more than species drawn at random from the same tree and various indices have been proposed for quantifying it.

TL;DR: It is suggested that despite the strong progress that has been made, a consistent unified framework is still missing to link local ecological dynamics to macroevolution, and this is a necessary step in order to interpret observed phylogenetic patterns in a wider ecological context.

TL;DR: Hybrid modelling is presented as an approach to bridge the gap and to integrate the advantages of both research directions in modelling the potential distributions of invasive species.

TL;DR: The VE approach is an intuitive and powerful evaluation framework that allows a quality assessment of sampling protocols, analyses and modelling tools and could foster the integration of theoretical and empirical work and stimulate work that goes far beyond sampling methods, leading to new questions, theories, and better mechanistic understanding of ecological systems.