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

The upper rio Paraná basin drains the most developed and environmentally degraded
region in South America: the Brazilian southeast. While it is one of the most well-known …

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

Species occurrence records from online databases are an indispensable resource in
ecological, biogeographical and palaeontological research. However, issues with data …

Abstract The Red List Categories and the accompanying five criteria developed by the
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) provide an authoritative and …

Species occurrence records provide the basis for many biodiversity studies. They derive
from georeferenced specimens deposited in natural history collections and visual …

The R language provides most applications (packages) currently available for ecological
niche modelling. In the last few years, these packages have increased substantially. There …

Building on centuries of research based on herbarium specimens gathered through time
and around the globe, a new era of discovery, synthesis, and prediction using digitized …

The increase in online and openly accessible biodiversity databases provides a vast and
invaluable resource to support research and policy. However, without scrutiny, errors in …

Background Trees play crucial roles in the biosphere and societies worldwide, with a total of
60,065 tree species currently identified. Increasingly, a large amount of data on tree species …