Recent progress in positioning technology facilitates the collection of massive amounts of
sequential spatial data on animals. This has led to new opportunities and challenges when …

The alpine belt hosts the treeless vegetation above the high elevation climatic treeline. The
way alpine plants manage to thrive in a climate that prevents tree growth is through small …

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

Prediction of species' distributions is central to diverse applications in ecology, evolution and
conservation science. There is increasing electronic access to vast sets of occurrence …

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 …

In the last two decades, interest in species distribution models (SDMs) of plants and animals
has grown dramatically. Recent advances in SDMs allow us to potentially forecast …

Generations of plant scientists have been fascinated by alpine plant life-with the exposure of
organisms to dramatic climatic gradients over a very short distance. This comprehensive text …

A resource selection function (RSF) is any model that yields values proportional to the
probability of use of a resource unit. RSF models often are fitted using generalized linear …

An important statistical development of the last 30 years has been the advance in regression
analysis provided by generalized linear models (GLMs) and generalized additive models …

Transforming the results of species distribution modelling from probabilities of or suitabilities
for species occurrence to presences/absences needs a specific threshold. Even though …