Species Distribution Models on EcoCommons

Overview Algorithms

Overview of SDM methods
The EcoCommons currently provides 19 different algorithms across 4 different categories to run your species distribution model: Profile models These mo...
Thu, 29 Jun, 2023 at 4:27 PM
Bioclim
Introduction Bioclim is a so-called envelope-style method that uses only occurrence data to define a multi-dimensional environmental space in which a sp...
Tue, 13 Dec, 2022 at 2:03 PM
Range-bagging
Range-bagging is a sophisticated method used to understand where certain species might be able to live based on certain environmental conditions.  Range...
Thu, 27 Jul, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Climatch - lite
*Disclaimer: Please note that Climatch – lite* implements the Climatch algorithm (Euclidean), but is not the Climatch package, which can be found at Clima...
Thu, 27 Jul, 2023 at 2:59 PM
Surface Range Envelope
Introduction A Surface Range Envelope is an envelope-style method similar to Bioclim. It is a presence-only model that uses the environmental conditions of...
Mon, 12 Dec, 2022 at 11:22 PM
Boosted Regression Tree
Introduction   Boosted Regression Tree (BRT) models are a combination of two techniques: decision tree algorithms and boosting methods. Like Random Forest...
Mon, 12 Dec, 2022 at 11:05 PM
Random Forest
Introduction Random Forests are an extension of single Classification Trees in which multiple decision trees are built with random subsets of the data. All...
Mon, 12 Dec, 2022 at 11:18 PM
Maxent
Introduction  Maxent, which stands for maximum entropy modelling, predicts species occurrences by finding the distribution that is most spread out or c...
Fri, 25 Nov, 2022 at 6:38 PM
Classification Tree
Introduction  Tree-based models partition the data into increasingly homogeneous groups of presence or absence based on their relationship to a set ...
Mon, 12 Dec, 2022 at 11:27 PM
Artificial Neural Network
Introduction Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) refers to a large group of computational models inspired by biological neural networks, particularly th...
Thu, 24 Nov, 2022 at 4:00 PM