Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1
• Publication Date: 2018-01-11T16:16:17Z
• Authors: Vitor H. F. Gomes; Stéphanie D. IJff; Niels Raes; Iêda Leão Amaral; Rafael P. Salomão; Luiz de Souza Coelho; Francisca Dionízi...; Carolina V. Castilho; Diogenes de Andra...; Dairon Cárdenas L...; Juan Ernesto Guevara; William E. Magnusson; Oliver L. Phillips; Florian Wittmann; Marcelo de Jesus ...; Maria Pires Martins; Mariana Victória ...; Daniel Sabatier; Jean-François Molino; Olaf S. Bánki; José Renan da Sil...; Nigel C. A. Pitman; Maria Teresa Fern...; Abel Monteagudo M...; Bruno Garcia Luize; Eduardo Martins V...; Evlyn Márcia Mora...; Percy Núñez Vargas; Thiago Sanna Frei...; Angelo Gilberto M...; John Terborgh; Neidiane Farias C...; Juan Carlos Montero; Katia Regina Casula; Beatriz S. Marimon; Ben-Hur Marimon; Euridice N. Honor...; Ted R. Feldpausch; Alvaro Duque; Charles Eugene Za...; Nicolás Castaño A...; Timothy J. Killeen; Bonifacio Mostacedo; Rodolfo Vasquez; Jochen Schöngart; Rafael L. Assis; Marcelo Brilhante...; Marcelo Fragomeni...; Ana Andrade; William F. Laurance; José Luís Camargo; Layon O. Demarchi; Susan G. W. Laurance; Emanuelle de Sous...; Henrique Eduardo ...; Juan David Carden...; Adriano Quaresma; Flavia R. C. Costa; Ima Célia Guimarã...; Bruno Barçante La...; Hernán Castellanos; Roel Brienen; Pablo R. Stevenson; Yuri Feitosa; Joost F. Duivenvo...; Gerardo A. Aymard C.; Hugo F. Mogollón; Natalia Targhetta; James A. Comiskey; Alberto Vicentini; Aline Lopes; Gabriel Damasco; Nállarett Dávila; Roosevelt García-...; Carolina Levis; Juliana Schietti; Priscila Souza; Thaise Emilio; Alfonso Alonso; David Neill; Francisco Dallmeier; Leandro Valle Fer...; Alejandro Araujo-...; Daniel Praia; Dário Dantas do A...; Fernanda Antunes ...; Fernanda Coelho d...; Kenneth Feeley; Luzmila Arroyo; Marcelo Petratti ...; Rogerio Gribel; Boris Villa; Juan Carlos Licona; Paul V. A. Fine; Carlos Cerón; Chris Baraloto; Eliana M. Jimenez; Juliana Stropp; Julien Engel; Marcos Silveira; Maria Cristina Pe...; Pascal Petronelli; Paul Maas; Raquel Thomas-Caesar; Terry W. Henkel; Doug Daly; Marcos Ríos Paredes; Tim R. Baker; Alfredo Fuentes; Carlos A. Peres; Jerome Chave; Jose Luis Marcelo...; Kyle G. Dexter; Miles R. Silman; Peter Møller Jørg...; Toby Pennington; Anthony Di Fiore; Fernando Cornejo ...; Juan Fernando Phi...; Gonzalo Rivas-Torres; Patricio von Hild...; Tinde R. van Andel; Ademir R. Ruschel; Adriana Prieto; Agustín Rudas; Bruce Hoffman; César I. A. Vela; Edelcilio Marques...; Egleé L. Zent; George Pepe Galla...; Hilda Paulette Dá...; Ires Paula de And...; Jean-Louis Guilla...; Linder Felipe Moz...; Luiz Carlos de Ma...; Natalino Silva; Ricardo Zárate Gómez; Stanford Zent; Therany Gonzales; Vincent A. Vos; Yadvinder Malhi; Alexandre A. Oliv...; Angela Cano; Bianca Weiss Albu...; Corine Vriesendorp; Diego Felipe Correa; Emilio Vilanova T...; Geertje van der H...; Hirma Ramirez-Angulo; José Ferreira Ramos; Kenneth R. Young; Maira Rocha; Marcelo Trindade ...; Maria Natalia Uma...; Milton Tirado; Ophelia Wang; Rodrigo Sierra; Armando Torres-Le...; Casimiro Mendoza; Cid Ferreira; Cláudia Baider; Daniel Villarroel; Henrik Balslev; Italo Mesones; Ligia Estela Urre...; Luisa Fernanda Casas; Manuel Augusto Ah...; Reynaldo Linares-...; Roderick Zagt; Sasha Cárdenas; William Farfan-Rios; Adeilza Felipe Sa...; Daniela Pauletto; Elvis H. Valderra...; Freddy Ramirez Ar...; Isau Huamantupa-C...; Karina Garcia-Cab...; Lionel Hernandez; Luis Valenzuela G...; Miguel N. Alexiades; Susamar Pansini; Walter Palacios C...; William Milliken; Joana Ricardo; Gabriela Lopez-Go...; Edwin Pos; Hans ter Steege
• Keywords: Plot (graphics)

Abstract Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology and conservation. Presence-only SDMs such as MaxEnt frequently use natural history collections (NHCs) occurrence data, given their huge numbers accessibility. NHCs often spatially biased which may generate inaccuracies SDMs. Here, we test how the of predictions relates to a spatial abundance model, based on large plot dataset for Amazonian tree species, using inverse distance weighting (IDW). We also propose new pipeline deal with inconsistencies limit area occupancy species. found significant but weak positive relationship between IDW 66% The was weakly 95% sensitivity both analyses high. Furthermore, removed half records. SDM applications should consider this limitation, especially biodiversity assessments projects, when they automatically generated without subsequent checking. Our provides conservative estimate species’ occupancy, within an slightly larger than its extent occurrence, compatible e.g. IUCN red list assessments.