By Professor David I Warton

Journal articles

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

Moles AT; Warton DI; Warman L; Swenson N; Laffan SW; Zanne A; Pitman AJ; Hemmings F; Leishman M, 2009, 'Global patterns in plant height', Journal of Ecology, 97, pp. 923 - 932, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01526.x

Warton DI, 2008, 'Penalized normal likelihood and ridge regularization of correlation and covariance matrices', Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, pp. 340 - 349

Warton DI, 2008, 'Raw data graphing: an informative but under-utilized tool for the analysis of multivariate abundances', Austral Ecology, 33, pp. 290 - 300

Warton DI, 2008, 'Which Wald statistic? Choosing a parameterization of the Wald statistic to maximize power in k-sample generalized estimating equations', Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, pp. 3269 - 3282

Forster MA; Warton DI, 2007, 'A metacommunity-scale comparison of species-abundance distribution models for plant communities of eastern Australia', Ecography, 30, pp. 449 - 458

Lusk C; Warton DI, 2007, 'Global meta-analysis shows that relationships of leaf mass per area with species shade tolerance depend on leaf habit and ontogeny', New Phytologist, 176, pp. 764 - 774

Warton DI, 2007, 'How many words do you know? An integrated assesment task for introductory statistics students', Journal of Statistics Education, 15

Warton DI, 2007, 'Robustness to failure of assumptions of tests for a common slope amongst several allometric lines a simulation study', Biometrical Journal, 49, pp. 286 - 299

Warton DI; Wright I; Falster D; Westoby M, 2006, 'Bivariate line-fitting methods for allometry', Biological Reviews, 81, pp. 259 - 291

Weisbecker V; Warton DI, 2006, 'Evidence at hand: Diversity, functional implications, and locomotor prediction in intrinsic hand proportions of Doprotodtian marsupials', Journal of Morphology, 267, pp. 1469 - 1485

Wright I; Reich P; Cornelissen J; Falster D; Garnier E; Hikosaka K; Lamont B; Lee WY; Oleksyn J; Osada N; Poorter H; Villar R; Warton DI; Westoby M, 2005, 'Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships', New Phytologist, 166, pp. 485 - 496

Warton DI, 2005, 'Many zeros does not mean zero inflation: comparing the goodness-of-fit of parametric models to multivariate abundance data', Environmetrics, 16, pp. 275 - 289

Ramp D; Caldwell J; Edwards KA; Warton DI; Croft DB, 2005, 'Modelling of wildlife fatality hotspots along the Snowy Mountain Highway in New South Wales, Australia', Biological Conservation, 126, pp. 474 - 490

Wright I; Reich P; Cornelissen J; Falster D; Groom P; Hikosaka K; Lee W; Lusk C; Niinemets U; Oleksyn J; Poorter H; Warton DI; Westoby M, 2005, 'Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate', Global Ecology and Biogeography, 14, pp. 411 - 421

Warton DI; Hudson H, 2004, 'A manova statistic is just as powerful as distance-based statistics,for multivariate abundances', Ecology, 85, pp. 858 - 874

Moles AT; Warton DI; Stevens R; Westoby M, 2004, 'Does a latitudinal gradient in seedling survival favour larger seeds inthe tropics?', Ecology Letters, 7, pp. 911 - 914

Vest PA; Warton DI; Westoby M, 2004, 'Sprouting by semi-arid plants: testing a dichotomy and predictive traits', Oikos, 107, pp. 72 - 89

Moles AT; Warton DI; Westoby M, 2003, 'Do small-seeded species have higher survival through seed predation than large-seeded species?', Ecology, 84, pp. 3148 - 3161, http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/02-0662

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