The effect of spatially marginal localities in modelling species niches and distributions

M Soley‐Guardia, A Radosavljevic… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We introduce and evaluate the potential effect of spatially marginal localities
(specifically those protruding into unsuitable regions), in overestimating species niches and …

Transferability and model evaluation in ecological niche modeling: a comparison of GARP and Maxent

A Townsend Peterson, M Papeş, M Eaton - Ecography, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We compared predictive success in two common algorithms for modeling species'
ecological niches, GARP and Maxent, in a situation that challenged the algorithms to be …

A simulation-based method for selecting calibration areas for ecological niche models and species distribution models

F Machado-Stredel, ME Cobos… - Frontiers of …, 2021 - escholarship.org
Ecological niche models and species distribution models (ENM and SDM, respectively) are
tools that have seen massive use and considerable improvement during the last twenty …

Ecological niche modelling requires real presence data and appropriate study regions: a comment on Medone et al. (2015)

EE Gutiérrez - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Medone et al.[1] used ecological niche modelling (ENM) analyses to assess the climatic
suitability expected by the year 2050 in Venezuela and Argentina for two vectors of Chagas …

The effect of large sample sizes on ecological niche models: Analysis using a North American rodent, Peromyscus maniculatus

RA Boria, JL Blois - Ecological Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
Correlative ecological niche models (ENMs) aim to approximate the environmentally
suitable areas for a species. Recently, studies have explored the minimum number of …

Are we overestimating the niche? Removing marginal localities helps ecological niche models detect environmental barriers

M Soley‐Guardia, EE Gutiérrez… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Correlative ecological niche models (ENM s) estimate species niches using occurrence
records and environmental data. These tools are valuable to the field of biogeography …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond topo-climatic predictors: Does habitats distribution and remote sensing information improve predictions of species distribution models?

A Sanguet, N Wyler, B Petitpierre, E Honeck… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Species Distribution Models (SDM) represent a powerful tool to predict species'
habitat suitability on a landscape and fill the gap between truncated observation data and all …

Effects of restricting environmental range of data to project current and future species distributions

W Thuiller, L Brotons, MB Araújo, S Lavorel - Ecography, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the consequences of restricting the range of environmental conditions over
which niche‐based models are developed to project potential future distributions of three …

Evaluating how species niche modelling is affected by partial distributions with an empirical case

MA Carretero, N Sillero - Acta Oecologica, 2016 - Elsevier
Ecological niche models (ENMs) will successfully identify a species' ecological niche,
provided that important assumptions are fulfilled, namely environment equilibrium and niche …

Calibration areas in ecological niche and species distribution modelling: Unravelling approaches and concepts

O Rojas‐Soto, JS Forero‐Rodríguez… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The calibration area (CA) corresponds to the geographic region used by different
algorithms that estimate the species' environmental preferences and delimit its geographic …