Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are increasingly using big-data approaches to tackle
questions at large spatial, taxonomic, and temporal scales. However, despite recent efforts …

In this paper we aim to investigate the problems and potentialities of species distribution
modeling (SDM) as a tool for conservation planning and policy development and …

Risk maps summarizing landscape suitability of novel areas for invading species can be
valuable tools for preventing species' invasions or controlling their spread, but methods …

Through eight successful editions, and over nearly 40 years, Biogeography: An Ecological
and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the …

Species distribution models (SDM) are commonly used to obtain hypotheses on either the
realized or the potential distribution of species. The reliability and meaning of these …

Aim Nowadays, large amounts of species distribution data and software for implementing
different species distribution modelling methods are freely available through the internet. As …

Accurate mapping of species distributions is a fundamental goal of modern biogeography,
both for basic and applied purposes. This is commonly done by plotting known species …

It is well known that biodiversity data from historical inventories presents important
geographic and taxonomic biases. Due to this, current knowledge on the distribution of most …

The ever-increasing human footprint even in very remote places on Earth has inspired
efforts to document biodiversity vigorously in case organisms go extinct. However, the data …

Biodiversity databases are typically incomplete and biased. We identify their three main
limitations for characterizing the geographic distributions of species: unknown levels of …