36:. She graduated from the School of Agriculture and Forestry at the University of Melbourne in 1977. She specialises in ecological models that focus on spatial analysis and prediction of the habitat of plant and animal species. Following graduation, she was a research assistant and tutor for three years, and then spent the following 12 years raising her children. She returned to the University of Melbourne in 1992 and later commenced a part-time PhD in the School of Botany. She was awarded her PhD in 2002 on 'Predicting the distribution of plants'. Since then, she has been a research fellow in the School of Botany. She is currently an
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models. Elith is interested in the methods used to model the distribution of species, and focuses on how they work, how to improve them for typical data types and applications, and how to deal with their uncertainties. She is particularly interested in understanding how models work and in finding
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Her 2006 paper on novel methods to improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data, by mid-2014, had been cited about 3,000 times (Google
Scholar citations July 31, 2014). Other highly cited work includes her papers on boosted regression trees, her review of methods for spatial
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Elith, J., C. H. Graham, R. P. Anderson, M. Dudík, S. Ferrier, A. Guisan, R. J. Hijmans, F. Huettmann, J. R. Leathwick, A. Lehmann, J. Li, L. G. Lohmann, B. A. Loiselle, G. Manion, C. Moritz, M. Nakamura, Y. Nakazawa, J. McC. M. Overton, A. Townsend
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Elith is one of the most highly cited ecologists in
Australia and internationally, despite only graduating in 2002. Over the past decade she has become the 11th most-cited author in the field of environment and ecology. In 2012, she was recognised by
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Robust strategies for restoring aquatic and riparian biodiversity, including methods for quantifying the links between riverine biodiversity and restoration actions, and for evaluating restoration strategies.
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Improved methods for predicting species' distributions under environmental change, including range dynamics and global predictors for these models – this project is the subject of her Future
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Scachetti-Pereira, R. E. Schapire, J. Soberón, S. Williams, M. S. Wisz, and N. E. Zimmermann (2006). "Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data".
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technical solutions to improve their performance. She is also interested in and contributes to their use for practical applications.
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