Authors
Jason L Brown
Publication date
2014/7
Journal
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Volume
5
Issue
7
Pages
694-700
Description
  1. Species distribution models (SDMs) are broadly used in ecological and evolutionary studies. Almost all SDM methods require extensive data preparation in a geographic information system (GIS) prior to model building. Often, this step is cumbersome and, if not properly done, can lead to poorly parameterized models or in some cases, if too difficult, prevents the realization of SDMs. Further, for many studies, the creation of SDMs is not the final result and the post‐modelling processing can be equally arduous as other steps.
  2. SDMtoolbox is designed to facilitate many complicated pre‐ and post‐processing steps commonly required for species distribution modelling and other geospatial analyses. SDMtoolbox consists of 59 Python script‐based GIS tools developed and compiled into a single interface.
  3. A large set of the tools were created to complement SDMs generated in Maxent or to improve the predictive …
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Scholar articles
JL Brown - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2014