Many problems in the environmental sciences have a spatial component. This is particularly true when questions arise about how species act and interact at community and regional levels, in response to environmental changes. I make the case for Bayesian hierarchical models to play a dominant role...

Spatial statistical models are applied in many problems for which dependence in observed random variables is not easily explained by a direct scientific mechanism. In such situations there may be a latent spatial process that acts to produce the observed spatial pattern. We present methods for...

Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) estimation is a method employed to estimate variance-covariance parameters from data that follow a Gaussian linear model. In applications, it has either been conjectured or assumed that REML estimators are asymptotically Gaussian with zero mean and variance...