Madagascar's biota is hyperdiverse and includes exceptional levels of endemicity. We
review the current state of knowledge on Madagascar's past and current terrestrial and …

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 …

Abstract Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we
collated distributional data for> 14,000 (~ 70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles …

Invertebrates constitute the majority of animal species and are critical for ecosystem
functioning and services. Nonetheless, global invertebrate biodiversity patterns and their …

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 …

This software note announces a new open‐source release of the Maxent software for
modeling species distributions from occurrence records and environmental data, and …

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 …

Ziziphus jujuba has high ecological and economic value and is widely distributed in
northern China. Reconstructing the historical geographic distribution patterns of Z. jujuba …

Aim Species distribution modelling, a family of statistical methods that predicts species
distributions from a set of occurrences and environmental predictors, is now routinely …