Collaborative monitoring over broad scales and levels of ecological organization can inform conservation efforts necessary to address the contemporary biodiversity crisis. An important challenge to collaborative monitoring is motivating local engagement with enough buy-in from stakeholders while providing adequate top-down direction for scientific rigor, quality control, and coordination. Collaborative monitoring must reconcil...

Ecological niche theory holds that species distributions are shaped by a large and complex suite of interacting factors. Species distribution models ( SDM s) are increasingly used to describe species’ niches and predict the effects of future environmental change, including climate change. Currently, SDM s often fail to capture the complexity of species’ niches, resulting in predictions that are generally limited to climate‐occ...