In wallaceEcoMod/wallace: A Modular Platform for Reproducible Modeling of Species Niches and Distributions

Component: Visualize Model Results

ORIENTATION

Niche/distributional models can be used to make transfers across geographic space, and the modeled response can be examined in environmental space as well (Elith and Graham 2009; Guisan and Zimmermann 2000). Additionally, inspecting quantitative measures of performance constitutes a key exercise. Component: Visualize Model Results gives the user options for all of these. Wallace provides 1) bivariate environmental envelope plots for BIOCLIM models (Module: BIOCLIM Envelope Plots), 2) plots showing evaluation results over the range of Maxent models explored (Module: Maxent Evaluation Plots), 3) response curves that depict how model suitability relates to changes in the environmental predictor variables (Module: Plot Response Curves), and 4) maps of model predictions in the study region (Module: Map Prediction). All plots are displayed in the “Results” tab, and the geographic projection appears in the “Map” tab.

REFERENCES

Elith, J., & Graham, C.H. (2009). Do they? How do they? WHY do they differ? On finding reasons for differing performances of species distribution models. Ecography, 32, 66-77. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2008.05505.x

Guisan, A., & Zimmermann, N.E. (2000). Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology. Ecological Modelling, 135(2-3), 147-186. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(00)00354-9

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