And another related position:

BirdFuture: Research Group Leader (f/m/x) for Developing Models of Bird Diversity and Policy-relevant Applications in Europe

https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3260/Description/2

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This opinion piece introduce a new conceptual framework but also a methodology to capture the delayed effects of biodiversity drivers (take a look this is model-agnostic 😊, i.e. it does not depend on the modelling approach).

Biodiversity doesn’t respond instantly to its driver, yet most assessments assume it does. 🚨

The paradigm shift we propose in considers multiple trajectories of long-term environmental changes and disturbance events that cumulate and push biodiversity into a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state.

Indeed, model validation comes from other analyses related to spatial autocorrelation and cross-validation (providing AUC, specificity and sensitivity).

Thanks for this comment, the wording is indeed confusing as looking for this distribution can provide information about potential unexpected patterns while there is no need for normality.