When is variable importance estimation in species distribution modelling affected by spatial correlation?

Aridity preferences alter the relative importance of abiotic and biotic drivers on plant species abundance in global drylands

(2018) Miguel Berdugo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Machine Learning Using Hyperspectral Data Inaccurately Predicts Plant Traits Under Spatial Dependency

(2018) Alby Rocha et al.   Remote Sensing

The Naïve Overfitting Index Selection (NOIS): A new method to optimize model complexity for hyperspectral data

(2017) Alby D. Rocha et al.   ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

sdm: a reproducible and extensible R platform for species distribution modelling

(2016) Babak Naimi et al.   ECOGRAPHY

On the dangers of model complexity without ecological justification in species distribution modeling

(2016) David M. Bell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Transferability of species distribution models: The case of Phytophthora cinnamomi in Southwest Spain and Southwest Australia

(2016) J. Duque-Lazo et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Climatic niche breadth can explain variation in geographical range size of alpine and subalpine plants

(2016) Fangyuan Yu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE

Variable importance analysis: A comprehensive review

(2015) Pengfei Wei et al.   RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY

Virtual species distribution models

(2014) Jennifer A. Miller   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Species Distribution Modeling and Ecological Niche Modeling: Getting the Concepts Right

(2013) A. Townsend Peterson et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Modeling alpine plant distributions at the landscape scale: Do biotic interactions matter?

(2012) Eric Meineri et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Reconsidering the Specialist-Generalist Paradigm in Niche Breadth Dynamics: Resource Gradient Selection by Canada Lynx and Bobcat

(2012) Michael J. L. Peers et al.   PLoS One

Spatial autocorrelation in predictors reduces the impact of positional uncertainty in occurrence data on species distribution modelling

(2011) Babak Naimi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatial autocorrelation and the scaling of species–environment relationships

(2010) H. J. de Knegt et al.   ECOLOGY

Improving species distribution models for climate change studies: variable selection and scale

(2010) Mike P. Austin et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Species Distribution Models: Ecological Explanation and Prediction Across Space and Time

(2009) Jane Elith et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Coefficient shifts in geographical ecology: an empirical evaluation of spatial and non-spatial regression

(2009) L. Mauricio Bini et al.   ECOGRAPHY

BIOMOD - a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions

(2009) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The effect of species response form on species distribution model prediction and inference

(2009) Truly Santika et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Methods to quantify variable importance: implications for the analysis of noisy ecological data

(2009) Kim Murray et al.   ECOLOGY

A comparison of simultaneous autoregressive and generalized least squares models for dealing with spatial autocorrelation

(2009) S. Beguería et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2009) Samuel D. Veloz   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY