[PDF][PDF] Two alternative evaluation metrics to replace the true skill statistic in the assessment of species distribution models

RF Wunderlich, YP Lin, J Anthony… - Nature …, 2019 - natureconservation.pensoft.net
… Skill Statistic (TSS) under a variety of presence-background … ; 2) TSS quickly loses the
discriminatory power to differentiate … are misleading (such as those presented here), this is not

Species distribution models for invasive Eurasian watermilfoil highlight the importance of data quality and limitations of discrimination accuracy metrics

SM Thomas, MR Verhoeven, JR Walsh… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
discrimination accuracy measures were misleading when … Summary of discrimination accuracy
(AUC, TSS, and Kappa) … to maximize discrimination accuracy are not necessarily optimal …

Evaluating presence‐only species distribution models with discrimination accuracy is uninformative for many applications

DL Warren, NJ Matzke, TL Iglesias - Journal of Biogeography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… is that they can be used without true absence data, which is … each other based on discrimination
metrics (AUC, TSS, Kappa)… poor discrimination accuracy on misleading occurrence data. …

Evaluation metrics and validation of presence-only species distribution models based on distributional maps with varying coverage

K Konowalik, A Nosol - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
… one metric would be misleading, since individual metrics often … In our study, it was shown
that AUC and TSS are higher in … it with other metrics that are computed differently and are not

[HTML][HTML] High uncertainty in the effects of data characteristics on the performance of species distribution models

G Tessarolo, JM Lobo, TF Rangel, J Hortal - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
… by a weighted mean using TSS metrics of all single-models. … on performance when classic
discrimination metrics are used to … We however expect that these effects do not affect the …

Robust algorithm for estimating total suspended solids (TSS) in inland and nearshore coastal waters

SV Balasubramanian, N Pahlevan, B Smith… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
… is that each band is not only sensitive to TSS but also to other … criterion to enhance
discrimination of water types II and III. … In addition to the above metrics, we will also include slope …

Predictive performance of presence‐only species distribution models: a benchmark study with reproducible code

R Valavi, G Guillera‐Arroita… - Ecological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
discrimination result, so we used both weighted and unweighted implementations. For MARS,
we could not … available for predicting to, and evaluating against, supporting metrics such

Comprehensively evaluating the performance of species distribution models across clades and resolutions: choosing the right tool for the job

RF Wunderlich, H Mukhtar, YP Lin - Landscape Ecology, 2022 - Springer
Inaccurate environmental data might soon be a problem of … —in spite of their merits—ultimately
not included in this study to … we adapted for TSS based on the evaluation metrics’ ranges. …

Sample size for the evaluation of presence-absence models

A Jiménez-Valverde - Ecological Indicators, 2020 - Elsevier
… Simulations could be done assuming the opposite, which in SDM could … curves would
fluctuate below the positive diagonal of no discrimination instead of above it, and the results would

Broad-scale species distribution models applied to data-poor areas

C Guillaumot, J Artois, T Saucède, L Demoustier… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
… , all overall goodness-of-fit metrics (AUC, TSS, COR) were good with predictive accuracy Area
… , high AUC, TSS and COR scores were obtained but these results may be misleading and …