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

Presence-only data present challenges for selecting thresholds to transform species distribution modeling results into binary outputs. In this article, we compare two recently published threshold selection methods (maxSSS and maxF pb) and examine the effectiveness of the threshold-based prevalence estimation approach. Six virtual species with varying prevalence were simulated within a real landscape in southeastern Australia. Presence-only models were built with DOMAIN, generalized linear model, Maxent, and Random Forest. Thresholds were selected with two methods maxSSS and maxF pb with four presence-only datasets with different ratios of the number of known presences to the number of random points (KP-RP…

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  Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, State Government of Victoria