Analysing ecological dynamics with relational event models: The case of biological invasions

Spatio‐temporal processes play a key role in ecology, from genes to large‐scale macroecological and biogeographical processes. Existing methods studying such spatio‐temporally structured data either simplify the dynamic structure or the complex interactions of ecological drivers. The aim of this paper is to present a generic method for ecological research that allows analysing spatio‐temporal patterns of biological processes at large spatial scales by including the time‐varying variables that drive these dynamics.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity

• Publication date

  2023-03-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Mathematics, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/ddi.13752arXiv 2303.06362
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