With the expansion in the quantity and types of biodiversity data being collected, there is a
need to find ways to combine these different sources to provide cohesive summaries of …

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species
includes assessment of extinction risk for 98 512 species, plus documentation of their range …

At least 10,000 virus species have the ability to infect humans but, at present, the vast
majority are circulating silently in wild mammals,. However, changes in climate and land use …

Species distribution modeling (SDM) is widely used in ecology and conservation. Currently,
the most available data for SDM are species presence‐only records (available through …

Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models across
ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of ready‐to‐use software packages and …

Species distribution models, also known as ecological niche models or habitat suitability
models, have become commonplace for addressing fundamental and applied biodiversity …

This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building,
evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of …

To meet the ambitious objectives of biodiversity and climate conventions, the international
community requires clarity on how these objectives can be operationalized spatially and …

When applied to structured data, conventional random cross-validation techniques can lead
to underestimation of prediction error, and may result in inappropriate model selection. We …

This software note announces a new open‐source release of the Maxent software for
modeling species distributions from occurrence records and environmental data, and …