Summary 1 Geographic range size and how it changes through time is one of the
fundamental ecological and evolutionary characteristics of a species, and a strong predictor …

To conserve biodiversity, it is necessary to understand how species are distributed and
which aspects of the environment determine distributions. In large parts of the world and for …

A large array of species distribution model (SDM) approaches has been developed for
explaining and predicting the occurrences of individual species or species assemblages …

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

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 …

Aim Accounting for sampling bias is the greatest challenge facing presence‐only and
presence‐background species distribution models; no matter what type of model is chosen …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are statistical tools that relate species observations to
environmental conditions to retrieve ecological niches and predict species' potential …

Most methods for modeling species distributions from occurrence records require additional
data representing the range of environmental conditions in the modeled region. These data …

Environmental niche models, which are generated by combining species occurrence data
with environmental GIS data layers, are increasingly used to answer fundamental questions …

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 …