Bob O'Hara

Publications

• Preface to methods in ecological research
• Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents
• A niche for biology in species distribution models
• Do not log-transform count data
• Probabilistic Models for Continuous Ontogenetic Transition Processes
• Relatedness and spatial proximity as determinants of host-parasite interactions in the brood parasitic Barrow's goldeneye (Bucephala islandica)
• Seasonal fluctuations in leaf phenolic composition under UV manipulations reflect contrasting strategies of alder and birch trees
• Bayesian approaches in evolutionary quantitative genetics
• Climate-driven spatial dynamics of plague among prairie dog colonies
• Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data - an inverse perspective
• Geographical and ecological distributions of frog hemiclones suggest occurrence of both 'General-Purpose Genotype' and 'Frozen Niche Variation' clones
• Habitat-mediated facilitation and counteracting ecosystem engineering interactively influence ecosystem responses to disturbance
• Negative results are published
• Ectoparasite infestation patterns of domestic dogs in suburban and rural areas in Borneo
• European grants: A different view puts rich countries ahead
• Host Genotype Shapes the Foliar Fungal Microbiome of Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera)
• What drives community dynamics?
• Journal club
• Effects of habitat edges and trampling on the distribution of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in urban forests
• A Review of Bayesian Variable Selection Methods: What, How and Which
• Lunar periodicity and the timing of river entry in Atlantic salmon Salmo salar
• Heritability of Asymmetry and Lateral Plate Number in the Threespine Stickleback
• Quantifying Habitat Requirements of Tree-Living Species in Fragmented Boreal Forests with Bayesian Methods
• A physiological analogy of the niche for projecting the potential distribution of plants
• Assessment of UV Biological Spectral Weighting Functions for Phenolic Metabolites and Growth Responses in Silver Birch Seedlings
• The relative importance of lunar phase and environmental conditions on striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) catches in sport fishing
• On the setting of environmental noise and the performance of population dynamical models
• How to make models add up - a primer on GLMMs
• Tree allometries reflect a lifetime of herbivory in an African savanna
• The role of phenotypic plasticity in responses of hunted thinhorn sheep ram horn growth to changing climate conditions
• The role of growth history in determining age and size at maturation in exploited fish populations
• Species abundance dynamics under neutral assumptions: A Bayesian approach to the controversy
• Sexual patterns of prebreeding energy reserves in the common frog Rana temporaria along a latitudinal gradient
• Selective harvesting with equations: Comment on 'Should hunting mortality mimic the patterns of natural mortality?'
• Quantifying the effects of trampling and habitat edges on forest understory vegetation - A field experiment
• Comparative studies of quantitative trait and neutral marker divergence: A meta-analysis
• A probabilistic approach to exposure risk assessment
• A multispecies perspective on ecological impacts of climatic forcing
• Female-Biased Expression on the X Chromosome as a Key Step in Sex Chromosome Evolution in Threespine Sticklebacks
• Double-blind review: Let diversity reign
• Does double-blind review benefit female authors?
• Detecting compensatory dynamics in competitive communities under environmental forcing
• Integrating the niche and neutral perspectives on community structure and dynamics
• Hierarchical modelling of temperature and habitat size effects on population dynamics of North Atlantic cod
• How to understand species' niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography
• Dealing with Varying Detection Probability, Unequal Sample Sizes and Clumped Distributions in Count Data
• Estimation of Rates of Births, Deaths, and Immigration from Mark-Recapture Data
• Special Issue: The ecological niche as a window to biodiversity
• Parameter and uncertainty estimation for process-oriented population and distribution models: data, statistics and the niche
• Southern high-latitude terrestrial climate change during the Palaeocene–Eocene derived from a marine pollen record (ODP Site 1172, East Tasman Plateau)
• Ranking metapopulation extinction risk: From patterns in data to conservation management decisions
• Consequences of the spatial configuration of resources for the distribution and dynamics of the endangered Parnassius apollo butterfly
• Latitudinal divergence of common frog (Rana temporaria) life history traits by natural selection: Evidence from a comparison of molecular and quantitative genetic data
• Species richness estimators: How many species can dance on the head of a pin?
• The effect of fungicide dose on the composition of laboratory populations of barley powdery mildew
• Movement of barley powdery mildew within field plots
• Lifting a veil on diversity: A Bayesian approach to fitting relative-abundance models
• Genetic and maternal effect influences on viability of common frog tadpoles under different environmental conditions
• Immigration of the barley mildew pathogen into field plots of barley
• Visual disease and PCR assessment of stem base diseases in winter wheat
• Quantitative genetics: Wholesale analysis of genes, traits and microarrays
• Development and survival of a specialist herbivore, Melitaea cinxia, on host plants producing high and low concentrations of iridoid glycosides
• The structure and strength of environmental variation modulate covariance patterns. A reply to Houlahan et al. 2008
• Local adaptation and genetics of acid-stress tolerance in the moor frog, Rana arvalis
• Air-mediated pollen flow from genetically modified to conventional crops
• Spatial aggregation of pathotypes of barley powdery mildew
• Why we invoke Darwin [1] (multiple letters)
• Population structure, mating system, and sex-determining allele diversity of the parasitoid wasp Habrobracon hebetor
• Bias and precision in Q(ST) estimates: Problems and some solutions
• Frequency- and density-dependent selection in wheat powdery mildew
• Species decline - but why? Explanations of carabid beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae) declines in Europe
• The anarchist's guide to ecological theory. Or, we don't need no stinkin' laws
• The evolutionary ecology of dispersal
• Retention-tree groups in clear-cuts: Do they constitute 'life-boats' for spiders and carabids?
• Comparing the effects of genetic drift and fluctuating selection on genotype frequency changes in the scarlet tiger moth
• Why negatives should be viewed as positives
• The role of model selection in describing stochastic ecological processes
• Seeing the trees for the leaves - Oaks as mosaics for a host-specific moth
• Effects of fragmentation and trampling on carabid beetle assemblages in urban woodlands in Helsinki, Finland
• Inbreeding depression and the maintenance of genetic load in Melitaea cinxia metapopulations
• Human expression patterns: Genetic differences between populations
• Effects of landscape complexity on farmland birds in the Baltic States
• Testing abundance-range size relationships in European carabid beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
• A mathematical and statistical framework for modelling dispersal
• Wholesale analysis of genes, traits and microarrays
• Bayesian analysis of metapopulation data
• Predicting niche overlap with model‐based ordination
• Integrating data from different taxonomic resolutions to better estimate community alpha diversity
• Spatio‐temporal integrated Bayesian species distribution models reveal lack of broad relationships between traits and range shifts
• Modelling heterogeneity in the classification process in multi‐species distribution models can improve predictive performance
• Comment on “A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection rate”, author Coro
• Environmental effects and individual body condition drive seasonal fecundity of rabbits: identifying acute and lagged processes
• Experience drives innovation of new migration patterns of whooping cranes in response to global change
• Using streamflow observations to estimate the impact of hydrological regimes and anthropogenic water use on European stream macroinvertebrate occurrences
• On the inadequacy of species distribution models for modelling the spread of SARS-CoV-2: response to Araújo and Naimi
• Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements
• Broadleaf deciduous forest counterbalanced the direct effect of climate on Holocene fire regime in hemiboreal/boreal region (NE Europe)
• Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species' abundance trends
• Cross-taxa generalities in the relationship between population abundance and ambient temperatures
• Fire has been an important driver of forest dynamics in the Carpathian Mountains during the Holocene
• Disentangling the effects of multiple environmental drivers on population changes within communities
• Disentangling synergistic disease dynamics: Implications for the viral biocontrol of rabbits
• Uncovering the drivers of host-associated microbiota with joint species distribution modelling
• Ten years of Methods in Ecology and Evolution
• Modelling seasonal dynamics, population stability, and pest control in Aedes japonicus japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae)
• Data Integration for Large-Scale Models of Species Distributions
• Integrating data from different survey types for population monitoring of an endangered species: the case of the Eld’s deer
• A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels
• Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments
• Effects of changing climate on European stream invertebrate communities: A long-term data analysis
• Species distribution models are inappropriate for COVID-19
• Is more data always better? A simulation study of benefits and limitations of integrated distribution models
• Don’t gamble the COVID-19 response on ecological hypotheses
• The dynamic core microbiome: Structure, dynamics and stability
• Integrating dispersal along freshwater ecosystems into species distribution models
• Model‐based ordination for species with unequal niche widths
• An open future for MEE
• Recognizability bias in citizen science photographs
• Concurrent ordination: Simultaneous unconstrained and constrained latent variable modelling
• Recognizability bias in citizen science photographs
• PointedSDMs: An R package to help facilitate the construction of integrated species distribution models
• Integrated species distribution models fitted in INLA are sensitive to mesh parameterisation
• Limited climatic space for alternative ecosystem states in Africa
• Rewriting results sections in the language of evidence
• Response to 'Why P values are not measures of evidence' by D. Lakens
• Joint reply to 'Rewriting results in the language of compatibility' by V. Amrhein and S. Greenland, and to 'The evidence contained in the P-value is context dependent' by F. Hartig and F. Barraquand
• Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant-hummingbird networks: morphological matching increases towards lower latitudes
• An attempt to test whether dogs (Canis familiaris) show increased preference towards humans who match their behaviour
• Integrated modeling of waterfowl distribution in western Canada using aerial survey and citizen science (eBird) data
• Uncovering The Drivers Of Animal-Host Microbiotas With Joint Distribution Modeling
• Insights into the quantification and reporting of model-related uncertainty across different disciplines
• How is model-related uncertainty quantified and reported in different disciplines?
• Modelling heterogeneity in the classification process in multi-species distribution models can improve predictive performance
• Recommendations for quantitative uncertainty consideration in ecology and evolution
• Hierarchical Ordination, A unifying framework for drivers of community processes
• Herbivores alter tree allometry in an African savanna
• Extending Joint Models in Community Ecology: A Response to Beissinger et al.
• Q(ST)-F-ST comparisons: evolutionary and ecological insights from genomic heterogeneity
• Supplementary material to "Southern high-latitude terrestrial climate change during the Paleocene–Eocene derived from a marine pollen record (ODP Site 1172, East Tasman Plateau)"
• Species interactions: estimating per-individual interaction strength and covariates before simplifying data into per-species ecological networks
• Variable strength of forest stand attributes and weather conditions on the questing activity of Ixodes ricinus ticks over years in managed forests
• Trait-dependent occupancy dynamics of birds in temperate forest landscapes: fine-scale observations in a hierarchical multi-species framework
• A new shape from shading technique with application to Mars Express HRSC images
• Transmitting species‐interaction data from animal‐borne transceivers through Service Argos using Bluetooth communication
• Timing and severity of immunizing diseases in rabbits is controlled by seasonal matching of host and pathogen dynamics
• Social Learning of Migratory Performance
• Spatio-temporal dynamics in waterbirds during the non-breeding season: Effects of local movements, migration and weather are monthly, not yearly
• Southern high-latitude terrestrial climate change during the Paleocene–Eocene derived from a marine pollen record (ODP Site 1172, East Tasman Plateau)
• CATS regression – a model‐based approach to studying trait‐based community assembly
• Temporal variation, duty cycle, and absolute calling effort during sustained calling of Leptodactylus mystacinus (Anura: Leptodactylidae)
• Plateau: a new method for ecologically plausible climate envelopes for species distribution modelling
• A cross-taxon analysis of the impact of climate change on abundance trends in central Europe
• Millions of reads, thousands of taxa: microbial community structure and associations analyzed via marker genes
• Parasites as Biological Tags for Stock Discrimination of Beaked Redfish (Sebastes mentella): Parasite Infra-Communities vs. Limited Resolution of Cytochrome Markers
• Relocation, high-latitude warming and host genetic identity shape the foliar fungal microbiome of poplars
• Risk Factors for the Presence of Chikungunya and Dengue Vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus), Their Altitudinal Distribution and Climatic Determinants of Their Abundance in Central Nepal
• Targeting season and age for optimizing control of invasive rabbits
• Long-term population dynamics of a migrant bird suggests interaction of climate change and competition with resident species
• Quantifying range-wide variation in population trends from local abundance surveys and widespread opportunistic occurrence records
• Inferring host specificity and network formation through agent-based models: tick-mammal interactions in Borneo
• Numerical response of small mustelids to vole abundance: delayed or not?
• So Many Variables: Joint Modeling in Community Ecology
• The importance of parasite geography and spillover effects for global patterns of host-parasite associations in two invasive species
• Bayesian model selection: The steepest mountain to climb
• Evaluating temporal variation in Citizen Science Data against temporal variation in the environment
• Spatio-temporal distribution of malaria and its association with climatic factors and vector-control interventions in two high-risk districts of Nepal
• Population fluctuations affect inference in ecological networks of multi-species interactions
• Shifts from native to invasive small mammals across gradients from tropical forest to urban habitat in Borneo
• Southern high-latitude terrestrial climate change during the Palaeocene-Eocene derived from a marine pollen record (ODP Site 1172, East Tasman Plateau)
• Understanding co-occurrence bymodelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species DistributionModel (JSDM)
• Facial morphology predicts male fitness and rank but not survival in Second World War Finnish soldiers
• Comparative studies of quantitative trait and neutral marker divergence: a meta-analysis
• European grants: a different view puts rich countries ahead
• Preface to Methods in Ecological Research
• Selective harvesting with equations: comment on 'Should hunting mortality mimic the patterns of natural mortality?'
• How to Make Models Add Up — A Primer on GLMMs
• Winter desiccation and rapid changes in the live fuel moisture content of Calluna vulgaris
• Species abundance dynamics under neutral assumptions: a Bayesian approach to the controversy
• Genetic differences between populations
• Double-blind review: let diversity reign
• Male adaptive stupidity: male mating pattern in hybridogenetic frogs
• Latitudinal divergence of common frog (Rana temporaria) life history traits by natural selection: evidence from a comparison of molecular and quantitative genetic data
• On teaching ecologists contemporary methods in statistics
• Why we invoke Darwin
• Reassessing the alternative ecosystem states proposition in the African savanna‐forest domain
• Combining observational and experimental data to estimate environmental and species drivers of fungal metacommunity dynamics
• The Point Process Framework for Integrated Modelling of Biodiversity Data
• A sequential Monte Carlo algorithm for data assimilation problems in ecology
• Fast fitting of phylogenetic mixed effects models