Abstract

Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) can help understand a species distribution in relation to its environment. It can also attempt to quantify the impact of climate change on the species' habitat, direct conservation efforts and predict invasive species distributions. This is acheived by associating species occurrence (observations) data with a set of environmental data (such as temperature and precipitation).

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

• How to build & evaluate a niche model, visualize and project it?

Learning Objectives

• Find and download occurrences data from GBIF
• Find and download environmental data
• Process both occurrences and environmental data
• Partition occurrence data
• Model a theoretical ecological niche and predict species distribution in a future climate scenario by using SDM