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Understanding the spatial and temporal distribution and abundance patterns of species and their relationships with environmental variables is a key issue in ecology. All too often, despite best efforts, the quality of the collected data forces us to reduce it to presence-absence data, which presents the ecologist with several specific statistical problems. In this chapter, using fish data as an example, we look at several approaches for analysing presence-absence data.
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Cabral, H., Zuur, A.F., Ieno, E.N., Smith, G.M. (2007). Analysing presence and absence data for flatfish distribution in the Tagus estuary, Portugal. In: Analysing Ecological Data. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-45972-1_21
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