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    Area of Science:

    • Ecology
    • Biogeography
    • Ecological Modeling

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    • Ecologists predict species distributions using niche theory, assuming current distributions reflect environmental requirements.
    • Current species distributions may not be in equilibrium with environmental conditions due to ongoing invasions and changing environments.
    • This equilibrium assumption leads to inaccurate predictions of geographic distributions.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a general theory of environmental associations during transient dynamics.
    • To provide analytical tools that avoid equilibrium assumptions in ecological modeling.
    • To improve the accuracy of predicting species' geographic distributions.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a general theory of environmental associations during transient dynamics.
    • Showed how time-invariant relationships between environmental conditions and colonization/extinction rates create temporal variation in occupancy-environment relationships.
    • Estimated occupancy-environment relationships during three avian invasions using dynamic occupancy models.

    Main Results:

    • Time-invariant relationships between environmental conditions and local colonization/extinction rates can cause significant temporal variation in occupancy-environment relationships.
    • Observed changes in occupancy-environment relationships over time varied among species.
    • Dynamic occupancy models successfully predicted these temporal changes.

    Conclusions:

    • Current occupancy-environment relationships are often poor predictors of future species distributions.
    • Future research should focus on characterizing how local colonization and extinction rates vary with environmental conditions.
    • A dynamic approach is necessary for accurate ecological forecasting in changing environments.