The diversity of life is ultimately generated by evolution, and much attention has focused on
the rapid evolution of ecological traits. Yet, the tendency for many ecological traits to instead …

The species concept is the cornerstone of biodiversity science, and any paradigm shift in the
delimitation of species affects many research fields. Many biologists now are embracing a …

High-resolution information on climatic conditions is essential to many applications in
environmental and ecological sciences. Here we present the CHELSA (Climatologies at …

Recent studies have demonstrated a need for increased rigour in building and evaluating
ecological niche models (ENM s) based on presence‐only occurrence data. Two major …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

The aim of the ecospat package is to make available novel tools and methods to support
spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions in a coherent workflow …

Species are shifting their ranges at an unprecedented rate through human transportation
and environmental change. Correlative species distribution models (SDMs) are frequently …

Community ecology aims to understand what factors determine the assembly and dynamics
of species assemblages at different spatiotemporal scales. To facilitate the integration …

Maxent, one of the most commonly used methods for inferring species distributions and
environmental tolerances from occurrence data, allows users to fit models of arbitrary …

The ENMTools software package was introduced in 2008 as a platform for making
measurements on environmental niche models (ENMs, frequently referred to as species …