Robert Brian OHara
Background and activities
My career has been dedicated to discovering whether I am a biologist or a statistician - I intend to retire once I come to a definite answer. Most of my work has been on ecology and evolution, using statistical methods to put data and models together to try to learnmore about the real world.
My main interest at the moment is the development of methods to model the distributions and dynamics of species an communities, where we have a variety of data sources that need to be respected, and models of the unobserved true distributions and dynamics from which we want to infer what drives the distributions of species, and oredict how this will change in the near future.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2019) Data integration for large-scale models of species distributions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
- (2019) A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels. Ecological Monographs. vol. 89:e01370 (3).
- (2018) Disentangling the effects of multiple environmental drivers on population changes within communities. Journal of Animal Ecology. vol. 87 (4).
- (2018) Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements. Science. vol. 359 (6374).
- (2018) Uncovering the drivers of host-associated microbiota with joint species distribution modelling. Molecular Ecology. vol. 27 (12).
- (2018) Disentangling synergistic disease dynamics: Implications for the viral biocontrol of rabbits. Journal of Animal Ecology. vol. 87 (5).
- (2017) Broadleaf deciduous forest counterbalanced the direct effect of climate on Holocene fire regime in hemiboreal/boreal region (NE Europe). Quaternary Science Reviews. vol. 169.
- (2017) Cross-taxa generalities in the relationship between population abundance and ambient temperatures. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. vol. 284 (1863).
- (2017) Using streamflow observations to estimate the impact of hydrological regimes and anthropogenic water use on European stream macroinvertebrate occurrences. Ecohydrology. vol. 10 (8).
- (2017) Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species' abundance trends. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
- (2017) Fire has been an important driver of forest dynamics in the Carpathian Mountains during the Holocene. Forest Ecology and Management.
- (2017) Effects of changing climate on European stream invertebrate communities: A long-term data analysis. Science of the Total Environment. vol. 621.