Demand for models in biodiversity assessments is rising, but which models are adequate for
the task? We propose a set of best-practice standards and detailed guidelines enabling …

Reporting specific modelling methods and metadata is essential to the reproducibility of
ecological studies, yet guidelines rarely exist regarding what information should be noted …

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 …

Ecological niche models (ENMs) are widely used statistical methods to estimate various
types of species niches. After lecturing several editions of introductory courses on ENMs and …

Ecological niche models are widely used in ecology and biogeography. Maxent is one of the
most frequently used niche modeling tools, and many studies have aimed to optimize its …

Spatial thinning of species occurrence records can help address problems associated with
spatial sampling biases. Ideally, thinning removes the fewest records necessary to …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict the occurrence of species.
Because SDMs generally use presence‐only data, validation of the predicted distribution …

MAXENT is now a common species distribution modeling (SDM) tool used by conservation
practitioners for predicting the distribution of a species from a set of records and …

This study employs spatial filtering of occurrence data with the aim of reducing overfitting to
sampling bias in ecological niche models (ENMs). Sampling bias in geographic space leads …

The discriminating capacity (ie ability to correctly classify presences and absences) of
species distribution models (SDM s) is commonly evaluated with metrics such as the area …