A simple method to estimate the probable distribution of species

• DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04563
• Publication Date: 2019-06-01T12:44:15Z
• Authors: Emilio García‐Ros...; Cástor Guisande; Luis González‐Vilas; Jacinto González‐...; Juergen Heine; Elisa Pérez‐Costas; Jorge M. Lobo
• Keywords: Species distribution; Environmental niche modelling

Species distribution models (SDMs) are broadly used to predict species distributions from available presence data. However, SDMs results have been criticized for several reasons mainly related two basic characteristics of most SDMs: 1) general lack reliable absence information, 2) the frequent use an arbitrary geographical extent (GE) or accessible area species. These impediments motivated us generate a procedure called niche occurrence (NOO). NOO provides probable (realized niche) relying solely on partial information about It operates within natural delimited by observations and avoids using misleading thresholds obtain binary presence–absence estimations when prevalence is unknown. In this study main presented, comparing its performance with other recognized more complex virtual avoid omnipresent error sources real data sets.