Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

C Meyer, P Weigelt, H Kreft - Ecology letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plants are a hyperdiverse clade that plays a key role in maintaining ecological and
evolutionary processes as well as human livelihoods. Biases, gaps and uncertainties in …

A checklist for maximizing reproducibility of ecological niche models

X Feng, DS Park, C Walker, AT Peterson… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Reporting specific modelling methods and metadata is essential to the reproducibility of
ecological studies, yet guidelines rarely exist regarding what information should be noted …

Worldwide occurrence records suggest a global decline in bee species richness

EE Zattara, MA Aizen - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Wild and managed bees are key pollinators, ensuring or enhancing the reproduction of a
large fraction of the world's wild flowering plants and the yield of∼ 85% of all cultivated …

Evaluating collinearity effects on species distribution models: An approach based on virtual species simulation

P De Marco, CC Nóbrega - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The increasing use of species distribution modeling (SDM) has raised new concerns
regarding the inaccuracies, misunderstanding, and misuses of this important tool. One of …

Making better Maxent models of species distributions: complexity, overfitting and evaluation

A Radosavljevic, RP Anderson - Journal of biogeography, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Models of species niches and distributions have become invaluable to biogeographers
over the past decade, yet several outstanding methodological issues remain. Here we …

Selecting thresholds for the prediction of species occurrence with presence‐only data

C Liu, M White, G Newell - Journal of biogeography, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species distribution models have been widely used to tackle ecological, evolutionary
and conservation problems. Most species distribution modelling techniques produce …

The effects of sampling bias and model complexity on the predictive performance of MaxEnt species distribution models

MM Syfert, MJ Smith, DA Coomes - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Species distribution models (SDMs) trained on presence-only data are frequently used in
ecological research and conservation planning. However, users of SDM software are faced …

Species distribution models: ecological explanation and prediction across space and time

J Elith, JR Leathwick - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Species distribution models (SDMs) are numerical tools that combine observations of
species occurrence or abundance with environmental estimates. They are used to gain …

Use of niche models in invasive species risk assessments

A Jiménez-Valverde, AT Peterson, J Soberón… - Biological …, 2011 - Springer
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 …

Seven shortfalls that beset large-scale knowledge of biodiversity

J Hortal, F de Bello, JAF Diniz-Filho… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are increasingly using big-data approaches to tackle
questions at large spatial, taxonomic, and temporal scales. However, despite recent efforts …