Hi, everyone. I used MaxEnt software to determine the potential distribution of three communities, but I'm still looking for a good interpretation of my own results. Anyone can guide me ?. I attached the results based on this explanation.
I recommend that you read these papers:
Elith, J., Phillips, S. J., Hastie, T., Dudík, M., Chee, Y. E., & Yates, C. J. (2011). A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists. Diversity and Distributions, 17, 43–57.
Merow, C., Smith, M. J., & Silander, J. a. (2013). A practical guide to MaxEnt for modeling species’ distributions: what it does, and why inputs and settings matter. Ecography, 36(10), 1058–1069.
Radosavljevic, A., & Anderson, R. P. (2014). Making better Maxent models of species distributions: Complexity, overfitting and evaluation. Journal of Biogeography, 41(4), 629–643.
Secondly, this is a very general question, There are many correct answers to that question.
dear colleagues
The case and the comment are limited to a single environmental component: ambient temperature and precipitation/humidity. Any textbook will explain that climate is one of the fundamental environmental variables. At very coarse resolutions (as in some of the referenced literature) you may find reasonable prediction statistics , but not in more practical fine resolution situations.
I hope the attached inspire you for a more ecological approach.
Article Where the bears roam in Majella National Park, Italy
Article Transferability of species distribution models: The case of ...
Hein, I recently read the second paper that you share. It is very interesting. However, I think that the second paper is not a good example for Vladimir because the authors worked with Phytophthora cinnamomi, an invasive species in Andalusia or Australia. When we are working with an invasive species there is a big problem for enviromental niche modelling: Non-Equilibrium states in ecology. Really, SDM are static models. On the other hand, it is true what you say about the factors considered in SDM. This depends on the scale of the work.
Thank you for your kind answers. I'am working in this issue for my project
Hi Wladimir,
Hopefully you've been able to figure things out but in case not I prepared this user-friendly guide for habitat suitability modelling using Maxent. Technical Report A training manual for habitat suitability and connectivity m...
Cheers, Paul
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