Publications

M.Isidora Ávila-Thieme, Erik Kusch, Derek Corcoran, Simón P. Castillo, Fernanda S. Valdovinos, Sergio A. Navarrete, Pablo A. Marquet
December 2022 TBD

NetworkExtinction - an R package to simulate extinction’s propagation and rewiring potential in ecological networks

R package for exploration of exctinction and rewiring processes in ecological networks.
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Erik Kusch, Malyon Bimler, James A. Lutz, Alejandro Ordonez
August 2022 TBD

Ecological network inference is not consistent across sales or approaches

Comparison of ecological network inferred with contemporary methodology across ecologically relevant scales.
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Erick Lundgren, Daniel Ramp, Owen Middleton, Eamonn Wooster, Erik Kusch, Mairin Balisi, William Ripple, Chris Hasselerharm, Jessica Sanchez, Mystyn Mills, Arian Wallach
May 2022 Journal of Animal Ecology

A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands

Analysis of spatio-temporal behaviour of donkeys and other grazers in response to predation by cougars.
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Erik Kusch, Richard Davy, Alistair Seddon
April 2022 Journal of Ecology

Vegetation memory effects and their association with vegetation resilience in global drylands

Expanding on my M.Sc. thesis by applying my vegetation memory framework to global drylands.
PDF Code Project
Connor Bernard, Gabriel Silva Santos, Jacques Deere, Roberto Rodriguez-Caro, Pol Capdevila, Erik Kusch, Samuel J L Gascoigne, John Jackson, Roberto Salguero-Gómez
March 2022 TBD

MOSAIC - A Unified Trait Database to Complement Structured Population Models

Integration of multiple demographic data bases into one easily accessible one-stop-shop for your demographic needs.
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Erik Kusch, Richard Davy
January 2022 Environmental Research Letters

KrigR – A tool for downloading and statistically downscaling climate reanalysis data

An R Package aimed at end-users of state-of-the-art climate reanalysis data to streamline retrieval, pre-processing, and statistical interpolation of ERA5(-Land) data.
PDF Project
Richard Davy, Erik Kusch
November 2021 Environmental Research Letters

Reconciling high resolution climate datasets using KrigR

Exploration of the usage of KrigR and implications for the wider field of climate data products for the use in Life Science research.
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May 2019 University of Bergen

Inferring Vegetation Memory from Remote Sensing Data using novel Climate Reconstruction Products

My M.Sc. thesis at the University of Bergen.
PDF Code Project
March 2017 Technical University of Dresden

Remote Sensing And Predicting Shifts In Biome Distribution And Resilience Using NDVI Data

My B.Sc. thesis at the Technical University of Dresden and University of Bergen.
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