Abstract
Modeling approaches that relate known occurrences of species to landscape features to \ndiscover ecological properties and predict geographic occurrences have seen extensive recent \napplication in ecology, systematics, and conservation. A key component in this process is \nestimation or characterization of species’ distributions in ecological space, which can then be \nuseful in understanding their potential distributions in geographic space. Hence, this process is \noften termed ecological niche modeling or (less boldly) species distribution modeling. \nApplications of this approach vary widely in their aims, products, and requirements; this variety is \nreviewed herein, examples are provided, and differences in data needs and possible interpretations \nare discussed.
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Environmental niche modellingEcologyEcological nicheVariety (cybernetics)Process (computing)Computer scienceNicheKey (lock)Component (thermodynamics)Distribution (mathematics)Species distributionGeographyEnvironmental resource managementData scienceEnvironmental scienceBiologyArtificial intelligenceMathematicsHabitat
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A. Townsend Peterson
(2006).
Uses and Requirements of Ecological Niche Models and Related Distributional Models.
Biodiversity Informatics
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https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v3i0.29
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