Colin M. Beale

Assessing protected areas as climate refugia for threatened plant species in Britain

This study identifies climate refugia in Britain for rare plant species and finds that protected areas with higher elevation, larger area, and latitude support more species.

Analysis of sparse animal social networks

The paper addresses bias in estimating edge weights in sparse animal social networks by introducing zero-inflation into a Bayesian framework, demonstrating improved performance over frequentist methods in elephant data.