May 18, 2016
An opinion piece by postdoc Marta Jarzyna and Walter Jetz on the pitfalls of ignoring imperfect detection of species in studies of functional and phylogenetic diversity was published in Trend in Ecology and Evolution. The study explores how functional and phylogenetic diversity might have different detectabilities than taxonomic diversity and how all three might vary differently along spatial and environmental gradients. The paper also extends occupancy modeling and dendrogram-based methods to address the imperfect detection of different biodiversity facets. Read more here.