Point process models for presence‐only analysis

IW Renner, J Elith, A Baddeley… - Methods in Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Presence‐only data are widely used for species distribution modelling, and point process
regression models are a flexible tool that has considerable potential for this problem, when …

Caveats for correlative species distribution modeling

CS Jarnevich, TJ Stohlgren, S Kumar, JT Morisette… - Ecological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Correlative species distribution models are becoming commonplace in the scientific
literature and public outreach products, displaying locations, abundance, or suitable …

The Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) should replace the ROC AUC as the standard metric for assessing binary classification

D Chicco, G Jurman - BioData Mining, 2023 - Springer
Binary classification is a common task for which machine learning and computational
statistics are used, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC …

kuenm: an R package for detailed development of ecological niche models using Maxent

ME Cobos, AT Peterson, N Barve, L Osorio-Olvera - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Background Ecological niche modeling is a set of analytical tools with applications in
diverse disciplines, yet creating these models rigorously is now a challenging task. The …

The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

JM Kass, B Guénard, KL Dudley, CN Jenkins… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Invertebrates constitute the majority of animal species and are critical for ecosystem
functioning and services. Nonetheless, global invertebrate biodiversity patterns and their …

Minimum required number of specimen records to develop accurate species distribution models

ASJ van Proosdij, MSM Sosef, JJ Wieringa… - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict the occurrence of species.
Because SDMs generally use presence‐only data, validation of the predicted distribution …

Urban flood risk map** using the GARP and QUEST models: A comparative study of machine learning techniques

H Darabi, B Choubin, O Rahmati, AT Haghighi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Flood risk map** and modeling is important to prevent urban flood damage. In this study,
a flood risk map was produced with limited hydrological and hydraulic data using two state …

Paintings predict the distribution of species, or the challenge of selecting environmental predictors and evaluation statistics

Y Fourcade, AG Besnard… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species distribution modelling, a family of statistical methods that predicts species
distributions from a set of occurrences and environmental predictors, is now routinely …

Spatial bias in the GBIF database and its effect on modeling species' geographic distributions

J Beck, M Böller, A Erhardt, W Schwanghart - Ecological Informatics, 2014 - Elsevier
Species distribution modeling, in combination with databases of specimen distribution
records, is advocated as a solution to the problem of distributional data limitation in …

Cross‐validation of species distribution models: removing spatial sorting bias and calibration with a null model

RJ Hijmans - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models are usually evaluated with cross‐validation. In this procedure
evaluation statistics are computed from model predictions for sites of presence and absence …