TY - BOOK AU - Guisan,A. AU - Thuiller,Wilfried AU - Zimmermann,Niklaus E. ED - Cambridge University Press. TI - Habitat suitability and distribution models: with applications in R T2 - Ecology, biodivesity and conservation SN - 9780521758369 AV - QH541.15.H34 G85 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY, USA PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Habitat suitability index models KW - R (Computer program language) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-457) and index; 1. General content of this book; -- 2. Overview of the habitat suitability modeling procedure; -- 3. What drives species distributions?; -- 4. From niche to distribution : basic modeling principles and applications; -- 5. Assumptions behind habitat suitability models; -- 6. Environmental predictors : issues of processing and selection; -- 7. Species data : issues of acquisition and design; -- 8. Ecological scales : issues of resolution and extent; -- 9. Envelopes and distance-based approaches; -- 10. Regression-based approaches; -- 11. Classification approaches and machine-learning systems; -- 12. Boosting and bagging approaches; -- 13. Maximum entropy; -- 14. Ensemble modeling and model averaging; -- 15. Measuring model accuracy : which metrics to use?; -- 16. Assessing model performance : which data to use?; -- 17. Projecting models in space and time; -- 18. Datasets and tools used for the examples in this book; -- 19. The Biomod2 modeling package examples; -- 20. Conclusions and future perspectives in habitat suitability modeling ER -