Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques

Global variation in diversification rate and species richness are unlinked in plants

(2022) Melanie Tietje et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

(2022) Francesco Maria Sabatini et al.   Nature Communications

Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness

(2021) Riccardo Testolin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots

(2021) Francesco Maria Sabatini et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity

(2021) Rafaël Govaerts et al.   Scientific Data

Spatial cross-validation is not the right way to evaluate map accuracy

(2021) Alexandre M.J.-C. Wadoux et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests

(2021) Oskar Hagen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Machine learning predicts large scale declines in native plant phylogenetic diversity

(2020) Daniel S. Park et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

(2020) Thomas L.P. Couvreur et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models

(2020) Pierre Ploton et al.   Nature Communications

Biodiversity data integration--The significance of data resolution and domain

(2019) Christian König et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

V.PhyloMaker: an R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants

(2019) Yi Jin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Global patterns and drivers of tree diversity integrated across a continuum of spatial grains

(2019) Petr Keil et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography

(2019) Patrick Weigelt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Geographically Weighted Machine Learning and Downscaling for High-Resolution Spatiotemporal Estimations of Wind Speed

(2019) Lianfa Li   Remote Sensing

Current climate, isolation and history drive global patterns of tree phylogenetic endemism

(2019) Brody Sandel et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

(2019) Carsten Rahbek et al.   SCIENCE

Global distribution of earthworm diversity

(2019) Helen R. P. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

Constructing a broadly inclusive seed plant phylogeny

(2018) Stephen A. Smith et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

(2018) Alexandre Antonelli et al.   Nature Geoscience

ranger: A Fast Implementation of Random Forests for High Dimensional Data in C++ and R

(2017) Marvin N. Wright et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

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

(2017) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   Scientific Data

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

(2017) Tomislav Hengl et al.   PLoS One

A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

(2016) Carsten Meyer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Region effects influence local tree species diversity

(2016) Robert E. Ricklefs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Geographic Variation in Species Diversity

(2015) Paul V.A. Fine   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Influence of Paleoclimate on Present-Day Patterns in Biodiversity and Ecosystems

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Late Cenozoic climate and the phylogenetic structure of regional conifer floras world-wide

(2015) Wolf L. Eiserhardt et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Building Predictive Models inRUsing thecaretPackage

(2015) Max Kuhn   Journal of Statistical Software

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

(2014) David Tilman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names

(2013) Brad Boyle et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Why are there so many species in the tropics?

(2013) James H. Brown   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

Quantifying island isolation - insights from global patterns of insular plant species richness

(2012) Patrick Weigelt et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A review of supervised machine learning algorithms and their applications to ecological data

(2012) C. Crisci et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Quaternary and pre-Quaternary historical legacies in the global distribution of a major tropical plant lineage

(2011) W. Daniel Kissling et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

(2011) B. Sandel et al.   SCIENCE

Speciation Has a Spatial Scale That Depends on Levels of Gene Flow

(2010) Yael Kisel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

The art of modelling range-shifting species

(2010) Jane Elith et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

BIOMOD - a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions

(2009) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Evaluation of consensus methods in predictive species distribution modelling

(2008) Mathieu Marmion et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Machine Learning Methods Without Tears: A Primer for Ecologists

(2008) Julian D. Olden et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY