How should we model rare species’ niches and distributions?

Constructing species distribution models (SDMs) and ecological niche models (ENMs) for very rare species is a very hard challenge–and these are the species for which knowing their distributions and niches would help the most! Recently, Kelley Erickson and I completed an assessment of state-of-the-art methods for modeling rare species in community contexts. In this analysis, …
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