Demand for models in biodiversity assessments is rising, but which models are adequate for
the task? We propose a set of best-practice standards and detailed guidelines enabling …

The use of species distribution models (SDM) is of increasing popularity when studying
biological invasions, eg to assess the impact of climate change on invasive species, to …

Joint species distribution modelling (JSDM) is a fast-developing field and promises to
revolutionise how data on ecological communities are analysed and interpreted. Written for …

The tropics are the source of most biodiversity yet inadequate sampling obscures answers to
fundamental questions about how this diversity evolves. We leveraged samples assembled …

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 …

The increasing use of species distribution modeling (SDM) has raised new concerns
regarding the inaccuracies, misunderstanding, and misuses of this important tool. One of …

Intervention planning for dengue requires reliable estimates of dengue transmission
intensity. However, current maps of dengue risk provide estimates of disease burden or the …

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 …

Species distribution models (SDM s) have become a standard tool in ecology and applied
conservation biology. Modelling rare and threatened species is particularly important for …

Networks of citizen scientists (CS) have the potential to observe biodiversity and species
distributions at global scales. Yet the adoption of such datasets in conservation science may …