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

Detecting outliers in species distribution data: Some caveats and clarifications on a virtual species study

(2019) Christine N. Meynard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Disentangling scale dependencies in species environmental niches and distributions

(2018) Katherine Mertes et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The effect of sample size on the accuracy of species distribution models: considering both presences and pseudo-absences or background sites

(2018) Canran Liu et al.   ECOGRAPHY

On the use of global DEMs in ecological modelling and the accuracy of new bare-earth DEMs

(2018) Vítězslav Moudrý et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Without quality presence-absence data, discrimination metrics such as TSS can be misleading measures of model performance

(2018) Boris Leroy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evaluating collinearity effects on species distribution models: An approach based on virtual species simulation

(2018) Paulo De Marco et al.   PLoS One

Detecting outliers in species distribution data

(2017) Canran Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Structural bias in aggregated species-level variables driven by repeated species co-occurrences: a pervasive problem in community and assemblage data

(2017) Bradford A. Hawkins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The importance of temporal resolution for niche modelling in dynamic marine environments

(2017) Marc Fernandez et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The interplay of various sources of noise on reliability of species distribution models hinges on ecological specialisation

(2017) Alaaeldin Soultan et al.   PLoS One

Performance tradeoffs in target-group bias correction for species distribution models

(2016) Nathan Ranc et al.   ECOGRAPHY

NicheA: creating virtual species and ecological niches in multivariate environmental scenarios

(2016) Huijie Qiao et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Data prevalence matters when assessing species' responses using data-driven species distribution models

(2016) Shinji Fukuda et al.   Ecological Informatics

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

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

Effects of Climate History and Environmental Grain on Species’ Distributions in Africa and South America

(2015) Yoshinori Nakazawa et al.   BIOTROPICA

virtualspecies, an R package to generate virtual species distributions

(2015) Boris Leroy et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Quality of presence data determines species distribution model performance: a novel index to evaluate data quality

(2015) Songlin Fei et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The scaling of geographic ranges: implications for species distribution models

(2015) Charles B. Yackulic et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

On the selection of thresholds for predicting species occurrence with presence-only data

(2015) Canran Liu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Accounting for spatially biased sampling effort in presence-only species distribution modelling

(2014) Jessica Stolar et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Environmental filters reduce the effects of sampling bias and improve predictions of ecological niche models

(2014) Sara Varela et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Projected impacts of climate warming on the functional and phylogenetic components of coastal Mediterranean fish biodiversity

(2014) Camille Albouy et al.   ECOGRAPHY

SDMvspecies: a software for creating virtual species for species distribution modelling

(2014) Ren-Yan Duan et al.   ECOGRAPHY

The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

(2014) Fernando Valladares et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Accounting for imperfect detection and survey bias in statistical analysis of presence-only data

(2014) Robert M. Dorazio   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ignoring Imperfect Detection in Biological Surveys Is Dangerous: A Response to ‘Fitting and Interpreting Occupancy Models'

(2014) Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita et al.   PLoS One

Virtual species distribution models

(2014) Jennifer A. Miller   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Maxent is not a presence-absence method: a comment on Thibaudet al.

(2014) Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Temporal validation plots: quantifying how well correlative species distribution models predict species' range changes over time

(2014) Giovanni Rapacciuolo et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Measuring the relative effect of factors affecting species distribution model predictions

(2014) Emeric Thibaud et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models

(2013) Stephanie Kramer-Schadt et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

(2013) Christine Lauzeral et al.   ECOGRAPHY

How to assess the prediction accuracy of species presence-absence models without absence data?

(2013) Wenkai Li et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Constraints on interpretation of ecological niche models by limited environmental ranges on calibration areas

(2013) Hannah L. Owens et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Stacking species distribution models and adjusting bias by linking them to macroecological models

(2013) Justin M. Calabrese et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Imperfect detection impacts the performance of species distribution models

(2013) José J. Lahoz-Monfort et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Selecting thresholds for the prediction of species occurrence with presence-only data

(2013) Canran Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

(2013) J. Wilson White et al.   OIKOS

Variation in niche and distribution model performance: The need for a priori assessment of key causal factors

(2012) E.E. Saupe et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling

(2012) Miguel B. Araújo et al.   ECOLOGY

Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity

(2012) Céline Bellard et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using virtual species to study species distributions and model performance

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

How to understand species’ niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography

(2012) Frank M. Schurr et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Dealing with Noisy Absences to Optimize Species Distribution Models: An Iterative Ensemble Modelling Approach

(2012) Christine Lauzeral 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

Presence-only versus presence-absence data in species composition determinant analyses

(2011) Rafi Kent et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The effect of a gradual response to the environment on species distribution modeling performance

(2011) Christine N. Meynard et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Understanding bias in geographic range size estimates

(2011) Seema N. Sheth et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Scaling down distribution maps from atlas data: a test of different approaches with virtual species

(2011) Pierluigi Bombi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate

(2011) T. P. Dawson et al.   SCIENCE

Niche and area of distribution modeling: a population ecology perspective

(2010) Jorge M. Soberón   ECOGRAPHY

Assessing the effect of prevalence on the predictive performance of species distribution models using simulated data

(2010) Truly Santika   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Exploring the effects of quantity and location of pseudo-absences and sampling biases on the performance of distribution models with limited point occurrence data

(2010) Jorge M. Lobo et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

The virtual ecologist approach: simulating data and observers

(2010) Damaris Zurell et al.   OIKOS

The effect of prevalence and its interaction with sample size on the reliability of species distribution models

(2009) A. Jiménez-Valverde et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

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

Spatial analysis improves species distribution modelling during range expansion

(2008) P. De Marco et al.   Biology Letters

Favourability functions versus probability of presence: advantages and misuses

(2008) Cécile H. Albert et al.   ECOGRAPHY