Our new review article “Calibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Ecological Models—A Review” now online and freely available in #EcologyLetters dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #Ecology #EcologicalModelling #SensitivityAnalysis #UncertaintyQuantification 🌐

Calibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Ecological Models—A Review

We provide a unified framework connecting sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis and model inversion or calibration, discuss their complementary roles in understanding and reducing uncertainty in....

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Check out our new preprint, "Analyzing animal movement using deep learning" where we show that #DNN can replace step selection functions to adjust for nonlinearity, complex interactions, and inter-individual variability that can be extracted by #explainableAI with p-values: arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24009

#PhDPosition in Ecological #DataScience in our group. For details, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #Statistics #Ecology #AcademicJobs

We are hiring: PhD position in Ecological Data Science

We are looking for a PhD student to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology) in the field of ecological data science / deep learning. 

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Come work with us! 🪲For our new project bAImo we are searching for a PhD researcher combining modelling 💻 with ecological expertise, aiming to improve interdisciplinary approaches to insect monitoring 🔎🐝 please visit tinyurl.com/bAImo-PhDoffer for more details. Looking forward to your application 🦗😊

Pra você que usa GLM/GLMMs, fique atento a problemas de dispersão!! E leia o preprint pra saber como testá-los! 🤓 / For you that uses GLM/GLMMs, attention on dispersion problems! Read the preprint to know how to test for ir 🤓

EcoEvoRxiv@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide doi.org/10.32942/X23...

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist

We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)

uni-regensburg.de

#PhD position! I’m looking for a PhD Student (1+3 years) to model insect populations using statistical models + deep learning at #TheoreticalEcology, Regensburg (Germany). Join our team - please RT! Details: karriere.uni-regensburg.de/tg7w9 #Insects #Ecology #DeepLearning #Ecology #Monitoring

In our new preprint, “Inferring processes within dynamic forest models using hybrid modeling” @ykaber.bsky.social and I present a new hybrid modeling approach for jointly calibrating a DVM with embedded #deepneuralnetwork arxiv.org/abs/2508.01228 1/4 #deeplearning #forestdynamics

In Nature, Delavaux et al., 2024 suggest that species richness on oceanic islands is reduced by mutualism rates on the mainland. In arxiv.org/abs/2411.15105, @maximilianpichler.bsky.social and I had another look at this question and conclude that this effect is likely a statistical artefact.

Is there a robust effect of mainland mutualism rates on species richness of oceanic islands?

In island biogeography, it is widely accepted that species richness on island depends on the area and isolation of the island as well as the species pool on the mainland. Delavaux et al. (2024) sugges...

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go.bsky.app/NiaWN5i I'm happy to receive suggestions for this.

cito v1.1 #rstats package for deep neural networks (#DL #DNN) (with formula syntax) is now available on #CRAN. New features include likelihoods such as the negative binomial distribution and easy hyperparameter tuning: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Come work with us - I am looking to fill a 3-yr position for a statistical postdoc / scientific programmer to continue the development of the DHARMa #Rstats #CRAN package for #glmm residual diagnostics. Full job advertisement is here uni-regensburg.de/assets/biolo...