Testing the ability of species distribution models to infer variable importance

Sample size for the evaluation of presence-absence models

(2020) Alberto Jiménez-Valverde   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments

(2019) Miguel B. Araújo et al.   Science Advances

A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels

(2019) Anna Norberg et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

An exhaustive analysis of heuristic methods for variable selection in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling

(2019) Marlon E. Cobos et al.   Ecological Informatics

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

(2019) Dan L. Warren et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The effect of positional error on fine scale species distribution models increases for specialist species

(2019) Lukáš Gábor et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Testing Range-Limit Hypotheses Using Range-Wide Habitat Suitability and Occupancy for the Scarlet Monkeyflower (Erythranthe cardinalis)

(2018) Amy L. Angert et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Disentangling scale dependencies in species environmental niches and distributions

(2018) Katherine Mertes et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Input variable selection with a simple genetic algorithm for conceptual species distribution models: A case study of river pollution in Ecuador

(2017) Sacha Gobeyn et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Toward ecologically realistic predictions of species distributions: A cross-time example from tropical montane cloud forests

(2017) Lázaro Guevara et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

A synthesis of transplant experiments and ecological niche models suggests that range limits are often niche limits

(2016) Julie A. Lee-Yaw et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Benchmarking novel approaches for modelling species range dynamics

(2016) Damaris Zurell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Selecting predictors to maximize the transferability of species distribution models: lessons from cross-continental plant invasions

(2016) Blaise Petitpierre et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A quantitative synthesis of the importance of variables used in MaxEnt species distribution models

(2016) Johanna Bradie et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

What we use is not what we know: environmental predictors in plant distribution models

(2016) Heidi K. Mod et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Overcoming limitations of modelling rare species by using ensembles of small models

(2015) Frank T. Breiner et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

No silver bullets in correlative ecological niche modelling: insights from testing among many potential algorithms for niche estimation

(2015) Huijie Qiao et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Comparing species distribution models constructed with different subsets of environmental predictors

(2014) David N. Bucklin et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A 40-year, continent-wide, multispecies assessment of relevant climate predictors for species distribution modelling

(2014) Morgane Barbet-Massin et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Are Species’ Range Limits Simply Niche Limits Writ Large? A Review of Transplant Experiments beyond the Range

(2013) Anna L. Hargreaves et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

On evaluating species distribution models with random background sites in place of absences when test presences disproportionately sample suitable habitat

(2013) Adam B. Smith   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Spatial range shape drives the grain size effects in species distribution models

(2013) Christine Lauzeral et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Evaluation of species distribution models by resampling of sites surveyed a century ago by Joseph Grinnell

(2013) Adam B. Smith et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Where is positional uncertainty a problem for species distribution modelling?

(2013) Babak Naimi et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Finer grain size increases effects of error and changes influence of environmental predictors on species distribution models

(2013) Brice B. Hanberry   Ecological Informatics

Ecologists should not use statistical significance tests to interpret simulation model results

(2013) J. Wilson White et al.   OIKOS

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

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

The relative influence of temperature, moisture and their interaction on range limits of mammals over the past century

(2012) Adam B. Smith   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Influence of positional accuracy, sample size and scale on modelling species distributions: a review

(2012) Vítězslav Moudrý et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE

Using virtual species to study species distributions and model performance

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

Climatic Associations of British Species Distributions Show Good Transferability in Time but Low Predictive Accuracy for Range Change

(2012) Giovanni Rapacciuolo et al.   PLoS One

Selecting pseudo-absences for species distribution models: how, where and how many?

(2012) Morgane Barbet-Massin et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Keep collecting: accurate species distribution modelling requires more collections than previously thought

(2011) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Overcoming the rare species modelling paradox: A novel hierarchical framework applied to an Iberian endemic plant

(2010) A. Lomba et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

An evaluation of environmental factors affecting species distributions

(2010) Michael B. Ashcroft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

The effect of the extent of the study region on GIS models of species geographic distributions and estimates of niche evolution: preliminary tests with montane rodents (genus Nephelomys) in Venezuela

(2010) Robert P. Anderson et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Stability selection

(2010) Nicolai Meinshausen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY

Selecting pseudo-absence data for presence-only distribution modeling: How far should you stray from what you know?

(2009) Jeremy VanDerWal et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Scale effects in species distribution models: implications for conservation planning under climate change

(2008) C. Seo et al.   Biology Letters

Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: new extensions and a comprehensive evaluation

(2008) Steven J. Phillips et al.   ECOGRAPHY

COMPONENTS OF UNCERTAINTY IN SPECIES DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF THE GREAT GREY SHRIKE

(2008) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOLOGY

A working guide to boosted regression trees

(2008) J. Elith et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY