Background The natural sciences, such as ecology and earth science, study complex
interactions between biotic and abiotic systems in order to understand and make …

Agroforestry systems are complex assemblages of ecosystem components, each of which
responds to climate. Whereas climate change impacts on crops grown in monocultures can …

Maps of species' distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of
environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include …

With the rise of new powerful statistical techniques and GIS tools, the development of
predictive habitat distribution models has rapidly increased in ecology. Such models are …

Despite the variety of statistical methods available for static modeling of plant distribution,
few studies directly compare methods on a common data set. In this paper, the predictive …

Summary 1 Few examples of habitat‐modelling studies of rare and endangered species
exist in the literature, although from a conservation perspective predicting their distribution …

Predictive vegetation mapping can be defined as predicting the geographic distribution of
the vegetation composition across a landscape from mapped environmental variables …

Summary 1 Statistical modelling is often used to relate sparse biological survey data to
remotely derived environmental predictors, thereby providing a basis for predictively …

Question: How many vegetation plot observations (relevés) are available in electronic
databases, how are they geographically distributed, what are their properties and how might …

International Journal of Wildland Fire Page 1 P ublishing Address manuscripts and editorial
enquiries to: International Journal of Wildland Fire Editor in Chief Dr Gwynfor Richards …