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92
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152

Overview

J. Andrew Royle is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science, with a primary focus on Ecology. The scientist's work spans several subfields including Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main research topics addressed by J. Andrew Royle include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Marine Animal Studies Overview.

J. Andrew Royle has published extensively in multiple scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Applications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by this researcher include:

  • "Migratory behavior and winter geography drive differential range shifts of eastern birds in response to recent climate change," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The unmarked R package: Twelve years of advances in occurrence and abundance modelling in ecology," 2023, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Estimating and forecasting spatial population dynamics of apex predators using transnational genetic monitoring," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Consequences of ignoring group association in spatial capture-recapture analysis," 2020, Wildlife Biology
  • "Optimal sampling design for spatial capture-recapture," 2020, Ecology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with J. Andrew Royle include:

  • Marc Kéry
  • Ben C. Augustine
  • Angela K. Fuller
  • Kenneth F. Kellner
  • Nathan J. Hostetter

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has contributed to book publications with eBooks, authoring a work titled : RBUGS published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY RATES WHEN DETECTION PROBABILITIES ARE LESS THAN ONE

    Darryl I. MacKenzie;James D. Nichols;Gideon B. Lachman;Sam Droege

  • Hierarchical Modeling and Inference in Ecology: The Analysis of Data from Populations, Metapopulations and Communities

    J. Andrew Royle;Robert M. Dorazio

  • N‐Mixture Models for Estimating Population Size from Spatially Replicated Counts

    J. Andrew Royle

  • ESTIMATING ABUNDANCE FROM REPEATED PRESENCE–ABSENCE DATA OR POINT COUNTS

    J. Andrew Royle;James D. Nichols

  • Designing occupancy studies: general advice and allocating survey effort

    Darryl I. Mackenzie;J. Andrew Royle

  • Presence‐only modelling using MAXENT: when can we trust the inferences?

    Charles B. Yackulic;Charles B. Yackulic;Richard Chandler;Elise F. Zipkin;J. Andrew Royle

  • Estimating Size and Composition of Biological Communities by Modeling the Occurrence of Species

    Robert M Dorazio;J. Andrew Royle

  • ESTIMATING SPECIES RICHNESS AND ACCUMULATION BY MODELING SPECIES OCCURRENCE AND DETECTABILITY

    Robert M. Dorazio;J. Andrew Royle;Bo Söderström;Anders Glimskär

  • Likelihood analysis of species occurrence probability from presence‐only data for modelling species distributions

    J. Andrew Royle;Richard B. Chandler;Charles Yackulic;James D. Nichols

  • A BAYESIAN STATE-SPACE FORMULATION OF DYNAMIC OCCUPANCY MODELS

    J. Andrew Royle;Marc Kéry

  • A HIERARCHICAL MODEL FOR SPATIAL CAPTURE–RECAPTURE DATA

    J. Andrew Royle;Kevin V. Young

  • Scaling-up camera traps: monitoring the planet's biodiversity with networks of remote sensors

    Robin Steenweg;Mark Hebblewhite;Roland Kays;Jorge Ahumada

  • Making Great Leaps Forward: Accounting for Detectability in Herpetological Field Studies

    Marc J. Mazerolle;Larissa L. Bailey;William L. Kendall;J. Andrew Royle

  • Modelling occurrence and abundance of species when detection is imperfect

    J. Andrew Royle;James D. Nichols;Marc Kéry

  • Generalized site occupancy models allowing for false positive and false negative errors.

    J. Andrew Royle;William A. Link

  • Bayesian inference in camera trapping studies for a class of spatial capture–recapture models

    J. Andrew Royle;K. Ullas Karanth;Arjun M. Gopalaswamy;N. Samba Kumar

  • MODELING AVIAN ABUNDANCE FROM REPLICATED COUNTS USING BINOMIAL MIXTURE MODELS

    Marc Kéry;J. Andrew Royle;Hans Schmid

  • Impacts of forest fragmentation on species richness: a hierarchical approach to community modelling

    Elise F. Zipkin;Amielle DeWan;J. Andrew Royle

  • MODELING ABUNDANCE EFFECTS IN DISTANCE SAMPLING

    J. Andrew Royle;Deanna K. Dawson;Scott Bates

  • Applied hierarchical modeling in ecology : analysis of distribution, abundance and species richness in R and BUGS

    Marc Kéry;J. Andrew Royle

  • Multi-species occurrence models to evaluate the effects of conservation and management actions

    Elise F. Zipkin;J. Andrew Royle;Deanna K. Dawson;Scott Bates

  • Tigers on trails: occupancy modeling for cluster sampling.

    J. E. Hines;J. D. Nichols;J. A. Royle;D. I. MacKenzie

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Kéry
Marc Kéry Swiss Ornithological Institute
Beth Gardner
Beth Gardner University of Washington
Rahel Sollmann
Rahel Sollmann University of California, Davis
James D. Nichols
James D. Nichols United States Geological Survey
Elise F. Zipkin
Elise F. Zipkin Michigan State University
John R. Sauer
John R. Sauer United States Fish and Wildlife Service
William A. Link
William A. Link United States Geological Survey
Darryl I. MacKenzie
Darryl I. MacKenzie North Carolina State University
Christopher K. Wikle
Christopher K. Wikle University of Missouri
Evan H. Campbell Grant
Evan H. Campbell Grant United States Geological Survey

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