Prof David Borchers
Professor
- Phone
- +44 (0)1334 46 1843
- dlb@st-andrews.ac.uk
- Office
- 100 OB
- Location
- Observatory
Research areas
I develop and apply statistical methods for solving problems in ecology, primarily involving drawing inferences about wildlife population abundance, distribution and populaton trajectories from survey data of various sorts. These methods are used extensively by national, international and private conservation and management organizations. My personal web page can be found here.
PhD supervision
- Yuheng Wang
- Rachel Drake
- Abinand Reddy Kodi
- Tamsin Rigold
- Tamsin Rigold
Selected publications
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Open access
A flexible framework for spatial capture-recapture with unknown identities
Van Dam-Bates, P., Papathomas, M., Stevenson, B. C., Fewster, R. M., Turek, D., Stewart, F. E. C. & Borchers, D. L., Mar 2024, In: Biometrics. 80, 1, 12 p., ujad019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Abundance and distribution of narwhals (Monodon monoceros) on the summering grounds in Greenland between 2007-2019
Hansen, R. G., Borchers, D. L. & Heide-Jørgensen, M. P., 31 Jan 2024, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 11, 19 p., 1294262.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Ghostbusting - Reducing bias due to identification errors in spatial capture-recapture histories
Kodi, A. R., Howard, J., Borchers, D. L., Worthington, H., Alexander, J., Lkhagvajav, P., Bayandonoi, G., Ochirjav, M., Erdenebaatar, S., Byambasuren, C., Battulga, N., Johansson, O. & Sharma, K., 22 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Early ViewResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Exact likelihoods for N-mixture models with time-to-detection data
Haines, L. M., Altwegg, R. & Borchers, D. L., 11 Dec 2023, In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics. 65, 4, p. 327-343 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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PAWS: population assessment of the world's snow leopards
Sharma, K., Alexander, J. S., Durbach, I., Kodi, A. R., Mishra, C., Nichols, J., MacKenzie, D., Ale, S., Lovari, S., Modaqiq, A. W., Zhi, L., Sutherland, C., Khan, A. A., McCarthy, T. & Borchers, D., 20 Oct 2023, Snow leopards. Mallon, D. & McCarthy, T. (eds.). 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Academic Press/Elsevier , p. 437-447 11 p. (Biodiversity of the world: conservation from genes to landscapes).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Pooling robustness in distance sampling: avoiding bias when there is unmodelled heterogeneity
Rexstad, E., Buckland, S. T., Marshall, L. H. & Borchers, D., 6 Jan 2023, In: Ecology and Evolution. 13, 1, 11 p., e9684.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Wildlife population assessment: changing priorities driven by technological advances
Buckland, S. T., Borchers, D. L., Marques, T. A. & Fewster, R. M., 1 Jun 2023, In: Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice. 17, 2, 22 p., 20.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
A latent capture history model for digital aerial surveys
Borchers, D. L., Nightingale, P., Stevenson, B. C. & Fewster, R. M., 1 Mar 2022, In: Biometrics. 78, 1, p. 274-285 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Automated call detection for acoustic surveys with structured calls of varying length
Wang, Y., Ye, J. & Borchers, D. L., 1 Jul 2022, In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13, 7, p. 1552-1567 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Using continuous-time spatial capture–recapture models to make inference about animal activity patterns
Distiller, G. B., Borchers, D. L., Foster, R. J. & Harmsen, B. J., 9 Oct 2020, In: Ecology and Evolution. Early View, 12 p., e6822.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review