Integrating niches, interactions and dispersal in species distribution models

该提案旨在制定一个统计建模框架，将各种空间尺度结合起来，并将环境耐受性、生物相互作用和扩散过程分开。了解驱动物种分布和生态群落的过程是生态学和环境管理的核心。这些知识可用于预测环境变化对生态系统的影响以及干预措施可能带来的惠益。目前的统计模型限制了可以使用的数据和可以回答的生态问题。该项目预计将提高我们的能力，以预测物种分布在变化的环境中相互作用的物种和分散在整个景观。

This proposal aims to develop a framework for statistical modelling that integrates across spatial scales and disentangles the processes of environmental tolerance, biotic interactions and dispersal. Understanding the processes that drive species distributions and ecological communities is central to ecology and environmental management. This knowledge can be used to anticipate the impacts of environmental change on ecosystems, and the likely benefits of interventions. Current statistical models limit the data that can be used and the ecological questions that can be answered. This project expects to improve our ability to predict species distributions under changed environments given interacting species and dispersal across the landscape.