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Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years
Insects have a pivotal role in ecosystem function, thus the decline of more than 75% in insect biomass in protected areas over recent decades in Central Europe1 and elsewhere2,3 has alarmed the public, pushed dec...
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Open AccessDiverse Effects of Climate, Land Use, and Insects on Dung and Carrion Decomposition
Land-use intensification and climate change threaten ecosystem functions. A fundamental, yet often overlooked, function is decomposition of necromass. The direct and indirect anthropogenic effects on decomposi...
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Open AccessProbabilistic time series forecasts with autoregressive transformation models
Probabilistic forecasting of time series is an important matter in many applications and research fields. In order to draw conclusions from a probabilistic forecast, we must ensure that the model class used to...
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Open AccessRelationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient
Recently reported insect declines have raised both political and social concern. Although the declines have been attributed to land use and climate change, supporting evidence suffers from low taxonomic resolu...
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The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition
The amount of carbon stored in deadwood is equivalent to about 8 per cent of the global forest carbon stocks1. The decomposition of deadwood is largely governed by climate2–5 with decomposer groups—such as microo...
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Deep Conditional Transformation Models
Learning the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of an outcome variable conditional on a set of features remains challenging, especially in high-dimensional settings. Conditional transformation models provi...
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Author Correction: Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests
The habitat heterogeneity hypothesis predicts that biodiversity increases with increasing habitat heterogeneity due to greater niche dimensionality. However, recent studies have reported that richness can decr...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Baseline-adjusted proportional odds models for the quantification of treatment effects in trials with ordinal sum score outcomes
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Open AccessBaseline-adjusted proportional odds models for the quantification of treatment effects in trials with ordinal sum score outcomes
Sum scores of ordinal outcomes are common in randomized clinical trials. The approaches routinely employed for assessing treatment effects, such as t-tests or Wilcoxon tests, are not particularly powerful in dete...
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Open AccessTransformation boosting machines
The broad class of conditional transformation models includes interpretable and simple as well as potentially very complex models for conditional distributions. This makes conditional transformation models att...
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Open AccessRadar vision in the map** of forest biodiversity from space
Recent progress in remote sensing provides much-needed, large-scale spatio-temporal information on habitat structures important for biodiversity conservation. Here we examine the potential of a newly launched ...
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Generalised linear model trees with global additive effects
Model-based trees are used to find subgroups in data which differ with respect to model parameters. In some applications it is natural to keep some parameters fixed globally for all observations while asking i...
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Open AccessAutoregressive transitional ordinal model to test for treatment effect in neurological trials with complex endpoints
A number of potential therapeutic approaches for neurological disorders have failed to provide convincing evidence of efficacy, prompting pharmaceutical and health companies to discontinue their involvement in...
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A unified framework of constrained regression
Generalized additive models (GAMs) play an important role in modeling and understanding complex relationships in modern applied statistics. They allow for flexible, data-driven estimation of covariate effects....
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Cranial dural arteriovenous shunts. Part 4. Clinical presentation of the shunts with leptomeningeal venous drainage
Cranial dural arteriovenous fistulae have been classified into high- and low-risk lesions mainly based on the pattern of venous drainage. Those with leptomeningeal venous drainage carry a higher risk of an agg...
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Crowdsourced analysis of clinical trial data to predict amyotrophic lateral sclerosis progression
An open competition to predict the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) disease from the largest database of ALS clinical trial data yields potential new bioma...
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Regionalizing Indicator Values for Soil Reaction in the Bavarian Alps – from Averages to Multivariate Spectra
We present an approach to produce maps of Ellenberg values for soil reaction (R-value) in the Bavarian Alps. Eleven meaningful environmental predictors covering GIS-derived information on climatic, topographic...
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A new variable importance measure for random forests with missing data
Random forests are widely used in many research fields for prediction and interpretation purposes. Their popularity is rooted in several appealing characteristics, such as their ability to deal with high dimen...
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A toolbox of permutation tests for structural change
The sup \(LM\) test for structural change is embedded into a permutation test framework for a simple location model. T...
