Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators

S Mammola, J Pétillon, A Hacala… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Species distribution models (SDMs) have emerged as essential tools in the
equipment of many ecologists, useful to explore species distributions in space and time and …

[HTML][HTML] “photosearcher” package in R: An accessible and reproducible method for harvesting large datasets from Flickr

N Fox, T August, F Mancini, KE Parks, F Eigenbrod… - SoftwareX, 2020 - Elsevier
The social media website Flickr contains a wealth of spatial and temporal metadata, which
can play an important role in environmental research including cultural ecosystem service …

Reddit: A novel data source for cultural ecosystem service studies

N Fox, LJ Graham, F Eigenbrod, JM Bullock… - Ecosystem Services, 2021 - Elsevier
Social media sites have been gaining traction as a source of novel data for environmental
research, particularly for cultural ecosystem service (CES) assessments. However, Reddit, a …

Photo‐sharing platforms key for characterising niche and distribution in poorly studied taxa

A Jiménez‐Valverde, P Peña‐Aguilera… - Insect Conservation …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The continuing advancement of new technologies is making available novel sources of
occurrence data, such as photo‐sharing platforms. Using three Iberian Argiope spider …

The uniform AUC: Dealing with the representativeness effect in presence–absence models

A Jiménez‐Valverde - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models use occurrence data of the focus species together with
environmental variables to estimate a habitat suitability score. Typically, the discrimination …

[PDF][PDF] Understanding the Importance of Social Media as a Citizen Science Platform by Using Tiger Sighting Photographs from Facebook

N Barman, AB Roy, RB Roy, V Barve - … Information Science and …, 2022 - biss.pensoft.net
Availability of scientific data and public support for conservation actions are necessary tools
in mitigating conservation issues (Forrester et al. 2017). According to Falk and Dierking …

Social media, geodiversity and the provision of cultural ecosystem services

N Fox - 2021 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
To provide a more holistic approach to the conservation of ecosystem services (ES) there is
a need to further develop our understanding of how features of biotic and abiotic nature, as …