Species Distribution Modeling

Abstract The use of species distribution models (SDM) to map and monitor animal and plant distributions has become increasingly important in the context of awareness of environmental change and its ecological consequences. From their original inception as resource inventory and conservation mapping tools, SDM have evolved along with the increasing variety and availability of statistical methods, digital biological, and environmental data with which they are built in a geographic information system. Beyond predicting species distributions, these models have become an important and widely used decision‐making tool for a variety of biogeographical applications, such as studying the effects of climate change,…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• OS
  Ohio State University
• SD
  San Diego State University