ecospat: an R package to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions

V Di Cola, O Broennimann, B Petitpierre… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Biodiversity models: what if unsaturation is the rule?

RG Mateo, K Mokany, A Guisan - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - cell.com
Improving biodiversity predictions is essential if we are to meet the challenges posed by
global change. As knowledge is key to feed models, we need to evaluate how debated …

Stacking species distribution models and adjusting bias by linking them to macroecological models

JM Calabrese, G Certain, C Kraan… - Global Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species distribution models (SDM s) are common tools in biogeography and
conservation ecology. It has been repeatedly claimed that aggregated (stacked) SDM s (S …

Develo** integrative systematics in the informatics and genomic era, and calling for a global Biodiversity Cyberbank

J Wen, AJ Harris, SM Ickert‐Bond… - … of Systematics and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Systematics is the science of discovering, organizing and interpreting the diversity of all
living organisms. Recent developments in genomics and biodiversity informatics are …

The assembly of tropical tree communities–the advances and shortcomings of phylogenetic and functional trait analyses

NG Swenson - Ecography, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical tree communities present one of the most challenging systems for studying the
processes underlying community assembly. Most community assembly hypotheses consider …

The effect of sample size on the accuracy of species distribution models: considering both presences and pseudo‐absences or background sites

C Liu, G Newell, M White - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Most high‐performing species distribution modelling techniques require both presences,
and either absences or pseudo‐absences or background points. In this paper, we explore …

MaxEnt versus MaxLike: empirical comparisons with ant species distributions

MC Fitzpatrick, NJ Gotelli, AM Ellison - Ecosphere, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
MaxEnt is one of the most widely used tools in ecology, biogeography, and evolution for
modeling and map** species distributions using presence‐only occurrence records and …

The mossy north: an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient in European bryophytes

RG Mateo, O Broennimann, S Normand… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
It remains hotly debated whether latitudinal diversity gradients are common across
taxonomic groups and whether a single mechanism can explain such gradients …

Using Maxent to model the historic distributions of stonefly species in Illinois streams: the effects of regularization and threshold selections

Y Cao, RE DeWalt, JL Robinson, T Tweddale, L Hinz… - Ecological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Species distribution model (SDMs) is increasingly used to determine the distribution range
of individual species and identify biodiversity hotspots. Of many technical issues, model over …

Using species richness and functional traits predictions to constrain assemblage predictions from stacked species distribution models

M D'Amen, A Dubuis, RF Fernandes… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Modelling species distributions at the community level is required to make effective
forecasts of global change impacts on diversity and ecosystem functioning. Community …