Summary 1 The concept of the ecological niche relates a set of environmental variables to
the fitness of species, while habitat suitability models (HSMs) relate environmental variables …

Although the systematic utility of ecological niche modeling is generally well known (eg,
concerning the recognition and discovery of areas of endemism for biogeographic …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

Aim The oceans harbour a great diversity of organisms whose distribution and ecological
preferences are often poorly understood. Species distribution modelling (SDM) could …

Aim Techniques that predict species potential distributions by combining observed
occurrence records with environmental variables show much potential for application across …

Aim Many attempts to predict the potential range of species rely on environmental niche (or
'bioclimate envelope') modelling, yet the effects of using different niche‐based …

Modeling approaches that relate known occurrences of species to landscape features to
discover ecological properties and predict geographic occurrences have seen extensive …

Assuming that co-distributed species are exposed to similar environmental conditions,
ecological niche models (ENMs) of cloud forest species were developed to study how …

Quantifying species distributions using species distribution models (SDMs) has emerged as
a central method in modern biogeography. These empirical models link species occurrence …

Although long‐standing theory suggests that biotic variables are only relevant at local scales
for explaining the patterns of species' distributions, recent studies have demonstrated …