Background Studies that attempt to measure shifts in species distributions often consider a
single species in isolation. However, understanding changes in spatial overlap between …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict the occurrence of species.
Because SDMs generally use presence‐only data, validation of the predicted distribution …

MAXENT is now a common species distribution modeling (SDM) tool used by conservation
practitioners for predicting the distribution of a species from a set of records and …

Algorithms for producing ecological niche models and species distribution models are
widely applied in biogeography and conservation biology. However, in some cases models …

Aim Accounting for sampling bias is the greatest challenge facing presence‐only and
presence‐background species distribution models; no matter what type of model is chosen …

We provide an overview of conceptual considerations in terminology related to ecological
niche modeling and species distribution modeling, two near-synonymous (but not quite) …

We examined the hypothesis that ecological niche models (ENM s) more accurately predict
species distributions when they incorporate information on population genetic structure, and …

Our understanding of how climate influences species distributions and our ability to assess
the risk of introduced species depend on the assumption that species' climatic niches remain …

Abstract Aim Ecological niche models (ENMs) are widely used to address urgent real‐world
problems such as climate change effects or invasive species; however, the generality of …

Robust methods by which to generate virtual species are needed urgently in the emerging
field of distributional ecology to evaluate performance of techniques for modeling ecological …