Improving models of species ecological niches: a remote sensing overview

PJ Leitão, MJ Santos - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Effective conservation capable of mitigating global biodiversity declines require thorough
knowledge on species distributions and their drivers. A species ecological niche determines …

The effect of positional error on fine scale species distribution models increases for specialist species

L Gábor, V Moudrý, V Lecours, M Malavasi… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species occurrences inherently include positional error. Such error can be problematic for
species distribution models (SDMs), especially those based on fine‐resolution …

Species distribution modelling to support forest management. A literature review

M Pecchi, M Marchi, V Burton, F Giannetti… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) techniques were originally developed in the
mid-1980s. In this century they are gaining increasing attention in the literature and in …

Using worldwide edaphic data to model plant species niches: An assessment at a continental extent

SJE Velazco, F Galvao, F Villalobos… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Ecological niche modeling (ENM) is a broadly used tool in different fields of plant ecology.
Despite the importance of edaphic conditions in determining the niche of terrestrial plant …

Model complexity affects species distribution projections under climate change

P Brun, W Thuiller, Y Chauvier… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Statistical species distribution models (SDMs) are the most common tool to predict the
impact of climate change on biodiversity. They can be tuned to fit relationships at various …

The influence of scale-dependent geodiversity on species distribution models in a biodiversity hotspot

BE Gerstner, ME Blair, P Bills… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Improving models of species' distributions is essential for conservation, especially in light of
global change. Species distribution models (SDMs) often rely on mean environmental …

How well do species distribution models predict occurrences in exotic ranges?

D Nguyen, B Leung - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used predictive tools to forecast
potential biological invasions. However, the reliability of SDMs extrapolated to exotic ranges …

Effect of sampling strategies on the response curves estimated by plant species distribution models

M Bazzichetto, J Lenoir, D Da Re, E Tordoni… - 2022 - osf.io
Species distribution models (SDMs) rely on species presence/absence or abundance data
and environmental variables to estimate species response curves. Therefore, the quality …

Influence of climate, soil, and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps

Y Chauvier, W Thuiller, P Brun… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although the importance of edaphic factors and habitat structure for plant growth and
survival is known, both are often neglected in favor of climatic drivers when investigating the …

Models of upland species' distributions are improved by accounting for geodiversity

JJ Bailey, DS Boyd, R Field - Landscape ecology, 2018 - Springer
Context Recent research suggests that novel geodiversity data on landforms, hydrology and
surface materials can improve biodiversity models at the landscape scale by quantifying …