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(More customer reviews)I used this book for my MSc thesis and found very helpful. The first chapters focus on the data for species and environmental variables. Consequently an overview of different modelling techniques is given (statistical and machine learning). Finally evaluation statistics are discussed. All these chapters are backed up with ample references to the primary literature.
My conclusion is, that the whole task of modelling species distributions is set into a very nice framework in this book.
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Maps of species' distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include biodiversity assessment, reserve design, habitat management and restoration, species and habitat conservation plans and predicting the effects of environmental change on species and ecosystems. The proliferation of methods and uncertainty regarding their effectiveness can be daunting to researchers, resource managers and conservation planners alike. Franklin summarises the methods used in species distribution modeling (also called niche modeling) and presents a framework for spatial prediction of species distributions based on the attributes (space, time, scale) of the data and questions being asked. The framework links theoretical ecological models of species distributions to spatial data on species and environment, and statistical models used for spatial prediction. Providing practical guidelines to students, researchers and practitioners in a broad range of environmental sciences including ecology, geography, conservation biology, and natural resources management.
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