author keywords: bird point‐ counts; clustering; community occupancy model; dimensionality; Dirichlet process; infinite‐ mixture models; latent groups

MeSH headings : Algorithms; Bayes Theorem; Computer Simulation; Ecosystem

TL;DR: This work develops a community occupancy model (COM) using a DP distribution to model species-level parameters and recommends using the DP-COM only when the analysis focuses on community structure and species similarity, as these quantities can only be obtained under theDP-COM. (via Semantic Scholar)