Im wondering myself because we made lots of predictuons of distribution of different species based on, some of them, few registers of presence. I sense it is very useful if we want to set strategies to fulfill all this gaps of surveying ...but i am also worry about these predictions and its precision...
Predicted presences for unsurveyed areas can be interpreted as follows:
1) Actually present, 2) currently absent but inhabitable (e.g., dispersal limitation regulates species arrival), and 3) wrong prediction.
I think extrapolated predictions can be risky, while interpolation is more convincing. This would be true for any empirical models (incl. statistical modeling)
I spplicated geostatistical models for studying insects and mites that active in Date palm plantation sgrecosystem. The results of them maybe useful. Please ser my publication.