A number of tick-borne diseases of humans have increased in incidence and geographic
range over the past few decades, and there is concern that they will pose an even greater …

To conserve biodiversity, it is necessary to understand how species are distributed and
which aspects of the environment determine distributions. In large parts of the world and for …

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 increasing use of species distribution modeling (SDM) has raised new concerns
regarding the inaccuracies, misunderstanding, and misuses of this important tool. One of …

A large array of species distribution model (SDM) approaches has been developed for
explaining and predicting the occurrences of individual species or species assemblages …

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 …

Species data held in museum and herbaria, survey data and opportunistically observed data
are a substantial information resource. A key challenge in using these data is the uncertainty …

The growth of data analysis techniques proceeds at astounding rates and it is often difficult
to maintain familiarity with its development. So too is the growth of sub-disciplines in …

ABSTRACT A wide range of modelling algorithms is used by ecologists, conservation
practitioners, and others to predict species ranges from point locality data. Unfortunately, the …