Demand for models in biodiversity assessments is rising, but which models are adequate for
the task? We propose a set of best-practice standards and detailed guidelines enabling …

Aim The idea of combining predictions from different models into an ensemble has gained
considerable popularity in species distribution modelling, partly due to free and …

SDMtoolbox 2.0 is a software package for spatial studies of ecology, evolution, and genetics.
The release of SDMtoolbox 2.0 allows researchers to use the most current ArcGIS software …

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

Spatial thinning of species occurrence records can help address problems associated with
spatial sampling biases. Ideally, thinning removes the fewest records necessary to …

Recent studies have demonstrated a need for increased rigour in building and evaluating
ecological niche models (ENM s) based on presence‐only occurrence data. Two major …

Aim Models of species niches and distributions have become invaluable to biogeographers
over the past decade, yet several outstanding methodological issues remain. Here we …

The MaxEnt software package is one of the most popular tools for species distribution and
environmental niche modeling, with over 1000 published applications since 2006. Its …

Species distribution modeling is a valuable tool with many applications across ecology and
evolutionary biology. The selection of biologically meaningful environmental variables that …

This study employs spatial filtering of occurrence data with the aim of reducing overfitting to
sampling bias in ecological niche models (ENMs). Sampling bias in geographic space leads …