by Vanesa Alegre | Mar 20, 2026 | Insight Lab, Wild Scope
Sometimes a paper begins with a question. Other times, it begins with discomfort. In this case, the discomfort came from feeling that we might be looking at the system too simply. We did not want to stop at a checklist of helminths or at a basic comparison between...
by Vanesa Alegre | Jun 13, 2025 | Insight Lab
Ecological thresholds are critical points where a small change in an environmental variable can trigger an abrupt transformation in the system. Far from being merely technical tools, thresholds enable us to detect tipping points in ecosystem dynamics and have profound...
by Vanesa Alegre | Feb 22, 2025 | Insight Lab
What is Spatial Cross-Validation? Spatial Cross-Validation (SCV) is an essential technique in spatial analysis and species distribution modeling, landscape ecology, and other fields that work with geospatial data. Its main goal is to assess the performance of...
