Twenty years of dynamic occupancy models: a review of applications and look to the future

Abstract

Since their introduction over 20 years ago, dynamic occupancy models (DOMs) have become a powerful and flexible framework for estimating species occupancy across space and time while accounting for imperfect detection. As their popularity has increased and extensions have further expanded their capabilities, DOMs have been applied to increasingly diverse datasets and research objectives in applied ecology. At the same time, technological advancements have resulted in massive increases in available data, offering both new opportunities and challenges for users of DOMs. Given these developments, it is timely to examine common practices in building these models to understand the breadth of mode..