Research areas
I am a Reader based in the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling and the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St 糖心logo. Until July 2026, I was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Statistics, University of Auckland
I develop statistical methods and software to estimate ecological parameters of interest, usually animal abundance or density. My recent work has met statistical challenges that arise when instruments like microphones, video-cameras, or drones are deployed to detect animals on wildlife surveys. New technologies have the potential to collect mountains of data at a low cost, but complicate estimation of ecological parameters because less information is encoded within each detection. For example, we can easily identify an individual on a live-trapping survey via a securely fixed ID tag, but perhaps cannot do so from a fleeting glimpse in a video. Most of my current work involves capture-recapture or spatial capture-recapture models.
Along with ecological statistics, I have research interests in spatial statistics, statistical computing, and applied statistics in general. I am currently an associate editor at Biometrics, a journal that publishes statistics research relevant to the biosciences.
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Selected publications
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Open access
Cohen, O., Baron, H. R., Stevenson, B. C., Wills, D. J., Wang, T., Walsh, W. R., Fearnside, S. M. & Cowan, M. L., 11 Mar 2026, In: Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery. 40, 1, p. 39-45 7 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Stevenson, B. C., Smit, E. & Setyawan, E., 1 Jun 2026, In: Annals of Applied Statistics. 20, 2, p. 945-962 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Colbert, J., Stevenson, B. C., Bowen, M. & Constantine, R., 1 Feb 2026, In: Diversity and Distributions. 32, 2, 11 p., e70145.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Seaton, A. E., Borchers, D. L., Groenenberg, M. & Stevenson, B. C., 1 Jun 2026, arXiv, 36 p.
Research output: Working paper 鈥� Preprint
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Chan, D. K. E., Seo, J. & Stevenson, B. C., 11 Oct 2026, In: Ecosphere. 17, 10, e70761.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Van Dam-Bates, P., Papathomas, M., Stevenson, B. C., Fewster, R. M., Turek, D., Stewart, F. E. C. & Borchers, D. L., Mar 2024, In: Biometrics. 80, 1, 12 p., ujad019.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Martin, L. H., Hepinstall-Cymerman, J., Chandler, R. B., Cooper, R. J., Parrish, M. C., Hao, L. & Stevenson, B. C., 1 Mar 2024, In: Journal of Raptor Research. 58, 1, p. 15-27
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Setyawan, E., Erdmann, M. V., Mambrasar, R., Ambafen, O., Hasan, A. W., Izuan, M., Mofu, I., Putra, M. I. H., Sianipar, A. B., Constantine, R., Stevenson, B. C. & Jaine, F. R. A., 10 Apr 2024, In: Royal Society Open Science. 11, 4, 20 p., 230895.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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Durbach, I., Chopara, R., Borchers, D. L., Phillip, R., Sharma, K. & Stevenson, B. C., Mar 2024, In: Biometrics. 80, 1, 9 p., ujad020.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review
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McGrath, S. J., Liu, J., Stevenson, B. C. & Behie, A. M., 27 Nov 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 11, 26 p., e0292386.
Research output: Contribution to journal 鈥� Article 鈥� peer-review