I'm using occurrence data for a marine species and I would like to model the present habitat suitability and make projections into the future using MaxEnt. I understand that I can add environmental layers as predictors for my "presence only data". However, what I don't really understand is how does maxent account for the time component of each of my occurrences? In my case, the occurrence data spreads out over about 15 years of records for a species in an area. I would probably obtain averaged environmental layers for the same time period as my presence data, right? In my understanding, alot, if not all, climate or seasonal variation in, for example, sea surface temperature would get completely lost. Is there a way to include the temporal component of the occurrences and attribute the environmental conditions that the animal actually experienced at any given time?

Please note, I'm new MaxEnt. Any advice very much welcome. Thank you :)

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