Table of Contents

1. Objective
2. Website structure
3. Contact

Objective

• The Detection Attribution Modeling (DAM) Navigator serves the goal to orient users looking methods for detecting and disentangling the drivers of observed biodiversity change. It situates methods, both widespread methods used in ecological studies and approaches inherited from causal inference or econometrics, against an ordered set of criteria.

• The different criteria invite users to precisely qualify what they are looking for and what they have at hands to narrow down and suggest detection and/or attribution methods and tools suited to their study.

Website structure

The DAM Navigator is implemented in this collaborative website and is organized around a dynamical method scheme on the landing page:

1. Landing page:
   • Brief description of the navigator
   • Invite users to fill in criteria in default order
     • Criteria default to Unevaluated, including all options and therefore not filtering the set of suggested methods

     Incomplete assessments are reported in outputs.

     ? signs

     Along each criterion, a ? sign redirects to the description page in the criteria panel.

   • Method scheme
     • Gets refined/colored with criteria assessment
       • see feasibility - Is refined each time a criterion is informed vs. updated on click only
     • Retained methods on the scheme can be clicked on to redirect to their page in method panel
       • see feasibility - Corresponding methods are highlighted in method left bar panel
     • Exportable outputs: refined scheme .png, criteria assessment + methods .csv, suited method list .txt

The sidebar

The sidebar provides access to different panels grouping resource pages logically. Its exploration in regards with the landing page is key for good use of the navigator.

1. Good practices panel

   This panel provides general resources that aim to help conceptualising and applying attribution methods. Here are page examples that fit this category:

   • Getting started
   • Causal diagrams
   • Compare multiple methods etc.

2. Criteria panel

   This panel provides information on every criterion used to subset detection & attribution methods when using the navigator. Pages follow a common documentation structure: Definition, Explanation, Tools/rationale for helping assessment and Example.

3. Method panel

   This panel provides information on every method listed in the navigator. The methods are described along a common documentation structure: Description & principle, Reference articles, Implementation packages and the Assessment table reflecting how the method is filtered against criteria evaluation.

4. DAM Gallery

   This final panel illustrates how the DAM can be used with examples, from the question + data at hands, to the criteria assessment and the method application. Examples include:

   • STOC + synthetic controls
   • Other T3.2 applications and project’s voluntary studies

Contact

• Joaquim Estopinan: joaquim.estopinan@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr