Among specific applications of species distribution models (SDMs), the use of SDMs
probabilistic maps for guiding field surveys is increasingly applied. This approach is …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are numerical tools that combine observations of
species occurrence or abundance with environmental estimates. They are used to gain …

The use of correlative ecological niche models has highly increased in the last decade.
Despite all literature and textbooks in this field, few practical guidelines exist on the correct …

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

Abstract Information on where species occur is an important component of conservation and
management decisions, but knowledge of distributions is often coarse or incomplete …

Ecosystem structure, especially vertical vegetation structure, is one of the six essential
biodiversity variable classes and is an important aspect of habitat heterogeneity, affecting …

Species distribution models are used to study biogeographic patterns and guide decision‐
making. The variable quality of these models makes it critical to assess whether a model's …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

Litsea cubeba is an important woody oil plant. The essential oils (EOs) can be extracted from
its flowers, leaves and peels and, by volume, it is the most exported natural EOs from China …

MaxEnt is a program for modelling species distributions from presence‐only species
records. This paper is written for ecologists and describes the MaxEnt model from a …