Botanical seminar: Impacts of observation error on estimates of vegetation dynamics and biodiversity change

This presentation examines how observation error affects estimates of vegetation dynamics and biodiversity change using repeated survey data from grassland ecosystems across Central Europe. By integrating multi-site datasets with modeling approaches such as particle-based filtering, it quantifies observation uncertainty and improves estimates of key ecological processes, including species persistence and extinction dynamics. The results highlight the importance of accounting for observation error to obtain more reliable assessments of community change and ecosystem resilience.