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

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 …

In the face of the growing challenges brought about by human activities, effective planning
and decision-making in biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, restoration, and …

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

Grassland covers about one quarter of the Earth's land area and is currently estimated to
contribute to the livelihoods of over 800 million people. Grassland provides ecosystem …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are algorithms designed to infer the distribution of
species using environmental and biotic variables and have become an important tool for …

Coincident with recent global warming, species have shifted their geographic distributions to
cooler environments, generally by moving along thermal axes to higher latitudes, higher …

Background The central thesis of plant ecology is that climate determines the global
distribution of vegetation. Within a vegetation type, however, finer‐scale environmental …

Aims The choice of environmental predictor variables in correlative models of plant species
distributions (hereafter SDM s) is crucial to ensure predictive accuracy and model realism …

Although the importance of edaphic factors and habitat structure for plant growth and
survival is known, both are often neglected in favor of climatic drivers when investigating the …