This workshop will walk you through the process of modeling species’ distributions from start to finish. As such, it covers all stages of the modeling process: data acquisition and cleaning, delineation of the study region, modeling and model tuning, bias correction, and model evaluation. The materials are built to be stand-alone, meaning that ideally you should not need an instructor to assist you (although having one obviously helps!).
– Adam B. Smith
All materials including data files and tutorials (also available below) (180 MB – last updated 18 April 2020)
- Exercise 00 Getting Started in R
- Exercise 01 Obtaining and Cleaning Biodiversity Data
- Exercise 02 Choosing a Study Region
- Exercise 03 Obtaining and Formatting Environmental Variables
- Exercise 04 Cropping Environmental Rasters to the Study Region
- Exercise 05 Match Records to Environment and Scrutinize for Outliers
- Exercise 06 Predictors: Automated vs Thoughtful Selection
- Exercise 07 Maxent
- Exercise 08 Bias Correction
- Exercise 09 Model Tuning
- Exercise 10 Model Evaluation: Metrics
- Exercise 11 Model Evaluation: Cross-Validation
- Exercise 12 Projecting to Different Time Periods or Regions
- Exercise 13 Niche versus Distribution Modeling
- Exercise 14 Other Algorithms
Venues of past workshops
- International Biogeography Society, Ecuador 2019 (part of the workshop “Methods for inferring biogeographic history from distinct lines of evidence: genetic, environmental niche, and fossil”)
- Ecological Society of America, August 2018
- Society for Conservation Biology, July 2016
- Wichita State University, May, 2016
- Kansas State University, February, 2016
- Kansas State University, 2012
- Missouri Botanical Garden, 2012
- Society for Conservation Biology, 2012