Piper species are aromatic plants used as spices in the kitchen, but their secondary
metabolites have also shown biological effects on human health. These plants are rich in …

The use of species distribution models (SDM) is of increasing popularity when studying
biological invasions, eg to assess the impact of climate change on invasive species, to …

This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building,
evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of …

Background Ecological niche modeling is a set of analytical tools with applications in
diverse disciplines, yet creating these models rigorously is now a challenging task. The …

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 …

The field of ecological niche modelling or species distribution modelling has seen enormous
activity and attention in recent years, in the light of exciting biological inferences that can be …

Algorithms for producing ecological niche models and species distribution models are
widely applied in biogeography and conservation biology. However, in some cases models …

Bioclimatic envelope models use associations between aspects of climate and species'
occurrences to estimate the conditions that are suitable to maintain viable populations. Once …

Correlational models of species' ecological niches are commonly used to transfer model
rules onto other sets of conditions to evaluate species' distributional potential. As with any …

The growth of data analysis techniques proceeds at astounding rates and it is often difficult
to maintain familiarity with its development. So too is the growth of sub-disciplines in …