Reporting specific modelling methods and metadata is essential to the reproducibility of
ecological studies, yet guidelines rarely exist regarding what information should be noted …

Global declines in biodiversity highlight the need to effectively monitor the density and
distribution of threatened species. In recent years, molecular survey methods detecting DNA …

Understanding the relationship between the geographical distribution of taxa and their
environmental conditions is a key concept in ecology and conservation. The use of …

Ziziphus jujuba has high ecological and economic value and is widely distributed in
northern China. Reconstructing the historical geographic distribution patterns of Z. jujuba …

A large array of species distribution model (SDM) approaches has been developed for
explaining and predicting the occurrences of individual species or species assemblages …

The MaxEnt software package is one of the most popular tools for species distribution and
environmental niche modeling, with over 1000 published applications since 2006. Its …

Cloud cover can influence numerous important ecological processes, including
reproduction, growth, survival, and behavior, yet our assessment of its importance at the …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to explain and predict species ranges
and environmental niches. They are most commonly constructed by inferring species' …

Bayesian modeling has become an indispensable tool for ecological research because it is
uniquely suited to deal with complexity in a statistically coherent way. This textbook provides …

Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species'
occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once …