Nicholas Golding

A modelling approach to estimate the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 during periods of high, low, and zero case incidence.

Nick Golding, David J Price, Gerard Ryan, Jodie McVernon, James M McCaw, Freya M Shearer

Journal article  |  2023  |  Elife

Against a backdrop of widespread global transmission, a number of countries have successfully brought large outbreaks of COVID-19 ..

The saturated pairwise interaction Gibbs point process as a joint species distribution model

Ian Flint, Nick Golding, Peter Vesk, Yan Wang, Aihua Xia

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES C-APPLIED STATISTICS

In an effort to effectively model observed patterns in the spatial configuration of individuals of multiple species in nature, we ..

A fractional land use change model for ecological applications

Simon Kapitza, Nick Golding, Brendan A Wintle

Journal article  |  2021  |  ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

By mapping land use under projections of socio-economic change, ecological changes can be predicted to inform conservation decisio..

Modelling temperature-driven changes in species associations across freshwater communities

Sam Wenaas Perrin, Bert van der Veen, Nick Golding, Anders Gravbrot Finstad

Journal article  |  2021  |  GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Due to global climate change-induced shifts in species distributions, estimating changes in community composition through the use ..

Double-tagging scores of seabirds reveals that light-level geolocator accuracy is limited by species idiosyncrasies and equatorial solar profiles

Luke R Halpin, Jeremy D Ross, Raul Ramos, Rowan Mott, Nicholas Carlile, Nick Golding, Jose Manuel Reyes-Gonzalez, Teresa Militao, Fernanda De Felipe, Zuzana Zajkova, Marta Cruz-Flores, Sarah Saldanha, Virginia Morera-Pujol, Leia Navarro-Herrero, Laura Zango, Jacob Gonzalez-Solis, Rohan H Clarke

Journal article  |  2021  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Light-level geolocators are popular bio-logging tools, with advantageous sizes, longevity and affordability. Biologists tracking s..

Assessing biophysical and socio-economic impacts of climate change on regional avian biodiversity

Simon Kapitza, Pham Van Ha, Tom Kompas, Nick Golding, Natasha CR Cadenhead, Payal Bal, Brendan A Wintle

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Climate change threatens biodiversity directly by influencing biophysical variables that drive species' geographic distributions a..

mixchar: An R Package for the Deconvolution of Thermal Decay Curves

SM Windecker, PA Vesk, SM Trevathan-Tackett, N Golding

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Open Research Software

Plant cell wall biomass is composed of a range of different types of carbon-based compounds. The proportions of the primary carbon..

Multi-output Gaussian processes for species distribution modelling

Martin Ingram, Damjan Vukcevic, Nick Golding

Journal article  |  2020  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Species distribution modelling is an active area of research in ecology. In recent years, interest has grown in modelling multiple..

Factors influencing the residency of bettongs using one-way gates to exit a fenced reserve

Jessie Moyses, Bronwyn Hradsky, Katherine Tuft, Katherine Moseby, Nicholas Golding, Brendan Wintle

Journal article  |  2020  |  Austral Ecology: a journal of ecology in the Southern Hemisphere

Understanding the conditions under which small native Australian mammals can persist in the presence of introduced predators remai..

Defining and evaluating predictions of joint species distribution models

David P Wilkinson, Nick Golding, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Reid Tingley, Michael A McCarthy

Journal article  |  2020  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Joint species distribution models (JSDMs) simultaneously model the distributions of multiple species, while accounting for residua..