Evaluating presence‐only species distribution models with discrimination accuracy is uninformative for many applications

Testing methods in species distribution modelling using virtual species: what have we learnt and what are we missing?

(2019) Christine N. Meynard et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

(2018) Vitor H. F. Gomes et al.   Scientific Reports

Combining functional traits, the environment and multiple surveys to understand semi-arid tree distributions

(2018) Laura J. Pollock et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Niche Estimation Above and Below the Species Level

(2018) Adam B. Smith et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Paintings predict the distribution of species, or the challenge of selecting environmental predictors and evaluation statistics

(2017) Yoan Fourcade et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Integrating demography, dispersal and interspecific interactions into bird distribution models

(2017) Damaris Zurell   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Climate change impacts on endemic, high-elevation lichens in a biodiversity hotspot

(2016) Jessica L. Allen et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Integrating phylogeography and species distribution models: cryptic distributional responses to past climate change in an endemic rodent from the central Chile hotspot

(2016) Pablo Gutiérrez-Tapia et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The effects of model and data complexity on predictions from species distributions models

(2016) David García-Callejas et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Incorporating evolutionary adaptation in species distribution modelling reduces projected vulnerability to climate change

(2016) Alex Bush et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Landscape to site variations in species distribution models for endangered plants

(2016) Corey Rovzar et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Limited transferability of stream-fish distribution models among river catchments: reasons and implications

(2016) Jian Huang et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Comparing Generalized Linear Models and random forest to model vascular plant species richness using LiDAR data in a natural forest in central Chile

(2016) J. Lopatin et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Maximum Entropy-Based Ecological Niche Model and Bio-Climatic Determinants of Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) Niche

(2016) Ram K. Raghavan et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Are we overestimating the niche? Removing marginal localities helps ecological niche models detect environmental barriers

(2016) Mariano Soley-Guardia et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Predicting regional densities from bird occurrence data: validation and effects of species traits in a Macaronesian Island

(2015) Luis M. Carrascal et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

virtualspecies, an R package to generate virtual species distributions

(2015) Boris Leroy et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Minimum required number of specimen records to develop accurate species distribution models

(2015) André S. J. van Proosdij et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Impact of model complexity on cross-temporal transferability in Maxent species distribution models: An assessment using paleobotanical data

(2015) Elena Moreno-Amat et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Assessing the importance of topographic variables for the spatial distribution of tree species in a tropical mountain forest

(2015) Daniel Kübler et al.   Erdkunde

Poor Transferability of Species Distribution Models for a Pelagic Predator, the Grey Petrel, Indicates Contrasting Habitat Preferences across Ocean Basins

(2015) Leigh G. Torres et al.   PLoS One

Detecting Extinction Risk from Climate Change by IUCN Red List Criteria

(2014) DAVID A. KEITH et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Spatial filtering to reduce sampling bias can improve the performance of ecological niche models

(2014) Robert A. Boria et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Mistaking geography for biology: inferring processes from species distributions

(2014) Dan. L. Warren et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

ENMeval: An R package for conducting spatially independent evaluations and estimating optimal model complexity forMaxentecological niche models

(2014) Robert Muscarella et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Pest species distribution modelling: origins and lessons from history

(2013) Robert W. Sutherst   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Effect of geographic background and equilibrium state on niche model transferability: predicting areas of invasion of Leptoglossus occidentalis

(2013) Geng-Ping Zhu et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Incorporating model complexity and spatial sampling bias into ecological niche models of climate change risks faced by 90 California vertebrate species of concern

(2013) Dan L. Warren et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Combining simulated expert knowledge with Neural Networks to produce Ecological Niche Models for Latimeria chalumnae

(2013) Gianpaolo Coro et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Choice of study area and predictors affect habitat suitability projections, but not the performance of species distribution models of stream biota

(2013) Sami Domisch et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Making better Maxentmodels of species distributions: complexity, overfitting and evaluation

(2013) Aleksandar Radosavljevic et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

‘Niche modeling’: that uncomfortable sensation means it's working. A reply to McInerny and Etienne

(2013) Dan L. Warren   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Harnessing the world's biodiversity data: promise and peril in ecological niche modeling of species distributions

(2012) Robert P. Anderson   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Cross-validation of species distribution models: removing spatial sorting bias and calibration with a null model

(2012) Robert J. Hijmans   ECOLOGY

Discrimination capacity in species distribution models depends on the representativeness of the environmental domain

(2012) Alberto Jiménez-Valverde et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Delimiting the geographical background in species distribution modelling

(2012) Pelayo Acevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Using virtual species to study species distributions and model performance

(2012) Christine N. Meynard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Testing the predictive performance of distribution models

(2012) Volker Bahn et al.   OIKOS

In defense of ‘niche modeling’

(2012) Dan L. Warren   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

CliMond: global high-resolution historical and future scenario climate surfaces for bioclimatic modelling

(2011) Darren J. Kriticos et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Abundance and the Environmental Niche: Environmental Suitability Estimated from Niche Models Predicts the Upper Limit of Local Abundance

(2009) Jeremy VanDerWal et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Do they? How do they? WHY do they differ? On finding reasons for differing performances of species distribution models

(2009) Jane Elith et al.   ECOGRAPHY

BIOMOD - a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions

(2009) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Sample selection bias and presence-only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo-absence data

(2009) Steven J. Phillips et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Spatially autocorrelated sampling falsely inflates measures of accuracy for presence-only niche models

(2009) Samuel D. Veloz   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models

(2008) M. S. Wisz et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

AUC: a misleading measure of the performance of predictive distribution models

(2007) Jorge M. Lobo et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY