Mapping Species Distributions: Spatial Inference and Prediction
Maps of species' distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include biodiversity assessment, reserve design, habitat management and restoration, species and habitat conservation plans and predicting the effects of environmental change on species and ecosystems. The proliferation of methods and uncertainty regarding their effectiveness can be daunting to researchers, resource managers and...
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Comprehensive summary of species distribution modeling methods integrating ecological and statistical models with spatial data, and a framework for implementation.
Part I. History and Ecological Basis of Species' Distribution Modeling: 1. Species distribution modeling; 2. Why do we need species' distribution models?; 3. Ecological understanding of species' distributions; Part II. The Data Needed for Modeling Species' Distributions; 4. Data for species' distribution models: the biological data; 5. Data for species' distribution models: the environmental data; Part III. An Overview of the Modeling Methods: 6. Statistical models - modern regression; 7. Machine learning methods; 8. Classification, similarity and other methods for presence-only data; Part IV. Model Evaluation and Implementation: 9. Model evaluation; 10. Implementation of species' distribution models.
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