Sara Robert’s new paper shows how the community of fishes responding to environmental change: “Single species distribution models (SSDMs) are typically used to understand and predict the distribution and abundance of marine fish by fitting distribution models for each species independently to a combination of abiotic environmental variables.” [more]

Roberts, S.M., Halpin, P.N. & Clark, J.S. 2022. Jointly modeling marine species to inform the effects of environmental change on an ecological community in the Northwest Atlantic. Scientific Reports 12, 132. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04110-0.