Species distribution modeling

Robert J. Hijmans and Jane Elith

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• Introduction
• Data preparation
  • Species occurrence data
  • Importing occurrence data
  • Data cleaning
  • Duplicate records
  • Cross-checking
  • Georeferencing
  • Sampling bias
  • 2.8 Exercises
• Absence and background points
• Environmental data
  • Raster data
  • Extracting values from rasters
• Model fitting, prediction, and evaluation
  • Model fitting
  • Model prediction
  • Model evaluation
• References