By Professor David I Warton

Journal articles

Dawson SK; Warton DI; Kingsford RT; Berney P; Keith DA; Catford JA, 2017, 'Plant traits of propagule banks and standing vegetation reveal flooding alleviates impacts of agriculture on wetland restoration', Journal of Applied Ecology, 54, pp. 1907 - 1918, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12922

Warton DI; Hui FKC, 2017, 'The central role of mean-variance relationships in the analysis of multivariate abundance data: a response to Roberts (2017)', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8, pp. 1408 - 1414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12843

Roberts DR; Bahn V; Ciuti S; Boyce MS; Elith J; Guillera-Arroita G; Hauenstein S; Lahoz-Monfort JJ; Schröder B; Thuiller W; Warton DI; Wintle BA; Hartig F; Dormann CF, 2017, 'Cross-validation strategies for data with temporal, spatial, hierarchical, or phylogenetic structure', Ecography, 40, pp. 913 - 929, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02881

Dawson SK; Kingsford RT; Berney P; Keith DA; Hemmings FA; Warton DI; Waters C; Catford JA, 2017, 'Frequent inundation helps counteract land use impacts on wetland propagule banks', Applied Vegetation Science, 20, pp. 459 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12295

Warton DI; Thibaut L; Wang YA, 2017, 'The PIT-trap — A “model-free” bootstrap procedure for inference about regression models with discrete, multivariate responses', PLoS ONE, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181790

Warton DI; Stoklosa J; Guillera-Arroita G; MacKenzie DI; Welsh AH, 2017, 'Graphical diagnostics for occupancy models with imperfect detection', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8, pp. 408 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12761

Warton DI; McGeoch MA, 2017, 'Technical advances at the interface between ecology and statistics: improving the biodiversity knowledge generation workflow', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8, pp. 396 - 397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12762

Barrett KB; Haynes JM; Warton DI, 2017, 'Thirty years of change in a benthic macroinvertebrate community of southwestern Lake Ontario after invasion by four Ponto-Caspian species', Freshwater Science, 36, pp. 90 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/689576

Hui FKC; Warton DI; Ormerod JT; Haapaniemi V; Taskinen S, 2017, 'Variational Approximations for Generalized Linear Latent Variable Models', Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 26, pp. 35 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2016.1164708

Warton DI; Blanchet FG; O'Hara R; Ovaskainen O; Taskinen S; Walker SC; Hui FKC, 2016, 'Extending Joint Models in Community Ecology: A Response to Beissinger et al.', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31, pp. 737 - 738, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2016.07.007

Warton DI; Lyons M; Stoklosa J; Ives AR, 2016, 'Three points to consider when choosing a LM or GLM test for count data', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 882 - 890, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12552

Lyons MB; Keith DA; Warton DI; Somerville M; Kingsford RT, 2016, 'Model-based assessment of ecological community classifications', Journal of Vegetation Science, 27, pp. 704 - 715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12400

Warton DI; Blanchet FG; O'Hara RB; Ovaskainen O; Taskinen S; Walker SC; Hui FKC, 2015, 'So Many Variables: Joint Modeling in Community Ecology', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 30, pp. 766 - 779, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.09.007

Hui FKC; Warton DI; Foster SD, 2015, 'Order selection in finite mixture models: Complete or observed likelihood information criteria?', Biometrika, 102, pp. 724 - 730, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asv027

Hui FKC; Warton DI; Foster SD, 2015, 'Community level models, finite mixture models, penalized likelihood, regularization, species archetype models, variable selection', Annals of Applied Statistics, 9, pp. 866 - 882, http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AOAS813

Warton DI; Foster SD; De’ath G; Stoklosa J; Dunstan PK, 2015, 'Model-based thinking for community ecology', Plant Ecology, 216, pp. 669 - 682, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-014-0366-3

Gibb H; Muscat D; Binns MR; Silvey CJ; Peters RA; Warton DI; Andrew NR, 2015, 'Responses of foliage-living spider assemblage composition and traits to a climatic gradient in Themeda grasslands', Austral Ecology, 40, pp. 225 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12195

Stoklosa J; Daly C; Foster SD; Ashcroft MB; Warton DI, 2015, 'A climate of uncertainty: Accounting for error in climate variables for species distribution models', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 412 - 423, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12217

Warton DI; Shipley B; Hastie T, 2015, 'CATS regression - a model-based approach to studying trait-based community assembly', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 389 - 398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12280

Hui FKC; Taskinen S; Pledger S; Foster SD; Warton DI, 2015, 'Model-based approaches to unconstrained ordination', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 399 - 411, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12236

Warton D, 2015, 'New opportunities at the interface between ecology and statistics', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 363 - 365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12345

Renner IW; Elith J; Baddeley A; Fithian W; Hastie T; Phillips SJ; Popovic G; Warton DI, 2015, 'Point process models for presence-only analysis', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 366 - 379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12352

Gibb H; Stoklosa J; Warton DI; Brown AM; Andrew NR; Cunningham SA, 2015, 'Does morphology predict trophic position and habitat use of ant species and assemblages?', Oecologia, 177, pp. 519 - 531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-3101-9

Hui FKC; Warton DI; Foster SD, 2015, 'Tuning Parameter Selection for the Adaptive Lasso Using ERIC', Journal of the American Statistical Association, 110, pp. 262 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2014.951444

Baeten L; Warton DI; Van Calster H; De Frenne P; Verstraeten G; Bonte D; Bernhardt-Römermann M; Cornelis J; Decocq G; Eriksson O; Hédl R; Heinken T; Hermy M; Hommel P; Kirby K; Naaf T; Petřík P; Walther GR; Wulf M; Verheyen K, 2014, 'A model-based approach to studying changes in compositional heterogeneity', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5, pp. 156 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12137

Stoklosa J; Gibb H; Warton DI, 2014, 'Fast forward selection for generalized estimating equations with a large number of predictor variables', Biometrics, 70, pp. 110 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/biom.12118

Brown AM; Warton DI; Andrew NR; Binns M; Cassis G; Gibb H, 2014, 'The fourth-corner solution - using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5, pp. 344 - 352, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12163

Slavich E; Warton DI; Ashcroft MB; Gollan JR; Ramp D, 2014, 'Topoclimate versus macroclimate: How does climate mapping methodology affect species distribution models and climate change projections?', Diversity and Distributions, 20, pp. 952 - 963, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12216

Madon B; Warton DI; Araújo MB, 2013, 'Community-level vs species-specific approaches to model selection', Ecography, 36, pp. 1291 - 1298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00127.x

Warton DI; Renner IW; Ramp D, 2013, 'Model-based control of observer bias for the analysis of presence-only data in ecology', PLoS ONE, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079168

Warton D; Aarts G, 2013, 'Advancing our thinking in presence-only and used-available analysis', Journal of Animal Ecology, 82, pp. 1125 - 1134, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12071

Dunstan PK; Foster SD; Hui FKC; Warton DI, 2013, 'Finite Mixture of Regression Modeling for High-Dimensional Count and Biomass Data in Ecology', Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 18, pp. 357 - 375, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13253-013-0146-x

Hui FKC; Warton DI; Foster SD; Dunstan PK, 2013, 'To mix or not to mix: Comparing the predictive performance of mixture models vs. separate species distribution models', Ecology, 94, pp. 1913 - 1919, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-1322.1

Flores-Moreno H; Thomson FJ; Warton DI; Moles AT; Flores Moreno H, 2013, 'Are Introduced Species Better Dispersers Than Native Species? A Global Comparative Study of Seed Dispersal Distance', PLoS ONE, 8, pp. e68541, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0068541

Renner I; Warton DI, 2013, 'Equivalence of MAXENT and Poisson Point Process Models for Species Distribution Modeling in Ecology', Biometrics, 69, pp. 274 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01824.x

Taskinen S; Warton DI, 2013, 'Robust tests for one or more allometric lines', Journal of Theoretical Biology, 333, pp. 38 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.05.010

Ashcroft MB; Gollan J; Warton DI; Ramp D, 2012, 'A novel approach to quantify and locate potential microrefugia using topoclimate, climate stability, and isolation from the matrix', Global Change Biology, 18, pp. 1866 - 1879, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02661.x

Warton DI; Wright ST; Wang Y, 2012, 'Distance-based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 89 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00127.x

Moles AT; Flores-Moreno H; Bonser SP; Warton DI; Helm A; Warman L; Eldridge DJ; Jurado E; Hemmings F; Reich P; Cavender-Bares J; Seabloom EW; Mayfield MM; Sheil D; Djietror JC; Peri PL; Enrico L; Cabido MR; Setterfield SA; Lehmann CE; Thomson FJ, 2012, 'Invasions: The trail behind, the path ahead, and a test of a disturbing idea', Journal of Ecology, 100, pp. 116 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01915.x

Wang Y; Naumann U; Wright ST; Warton DI, 2012, 'mvabund - an R package for model-based analysis of multivariate abundance data', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 471 - 474, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2012.00190.x

Warton DI; Duursma RA; Falster DS; Taskinen S, 2012, 'SMATR 3 - an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 257 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00153.x

Warton DI; Guttorp P, 2011, 'Compositional analysis of overdispersed counts using generalized estimating equations', Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 18, pp. 427 - 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10651-010-0145-9

Onoda Y; Westoby M; Adler PB; Choong AMF; Clissold FJ; Cornelissen JHC; Diaz S; Dominy NJ; Elgart A; Enrico L; Fine PVA; Howard JJ; Jalili A; Kitajima K; Kurokawa H; McArthur C; Lucas PW; Markesteijn L; Perez-Harguindeguy N; Poorter L; Richards L; Santiago LS; Sosinski Jr EE; Van Bael SA; Warton DI; Wright IJ; Joseph Wright S; Yamashita N, 2011, 'Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties', Ecology Letters, 14, pp. 301 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01582.x

Moles AT; Wallis IR; Foley WJ; Warton DI; Stegen JC; Bisigato AJ; Cella-pizarro L; Clark CJ; Cohen PS; Cornwell WK; Edwards W; Ejrnaes R; Gonzales-Ojeda T; Graae BJ; Hay G; Lumbwe FC; Magana-Rodriguez B; Moore BD; Peri PL; Poulsen JR; Veldtman R; von Zeipel H; Andrew NR; Boulter SL; Borer ET; Campon FF; Coll M; Farji-Brener AG; De Gabriel J; Jurado E; Kyhn LA; Low B; Mulder CPH; Reardon-Smith K; Rodriguez-Velazquez J; Seabloom EW; Vesk PA; van Cauter A; Waldram MS; Zheng Z; Blendinger PG; Enquist BJ; Facelli JM; Knight T; Majer JD; Martinez-Ramos M; Mcquillan P; Prior LD, 2011, 'Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes', New Phytologist, 191, pp. 777 - 788

Warton DI, 2011, 'Regularized sandwich estimators for analysis of high-dimensional data using generalized estimating equations', Biometrics, 67, pp. 116 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01438.x

Taskinen S; Warton DI, 2011, 'Robust estimation and inference for bivariate line-fitting in allometry', Biometrical Journal, 53, pp. 652 - 672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201000018

Warton DI, 2011, 'The arcsine is asinine: the analysis of proportions in ecology', Ecology, 92, pp. 3 - 10

Constantinou NE; Rogers TL; Laffan SW; Warton DI, 2010, 'Determining the spatial distribution of an Antarctic top predator using passive acoustics.', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127, pp. 1825 - 1825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3384228

Warton DI; Shepherd LC, 2010, 'Correction note: Poisson point process models solve the “pseudo-absence problem” for presence-only data in ecology', Annals of Applied Statistics, 4, pp. 2203 - 2204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS331CORR

Warton DI; Shepherd LC, 2010, 'Poisson point process models solve the “pseudo-absence problem" for presence-only data in ecology', Annals of Applied Statistics, 4, pp. 1383 - 1402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS331

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