Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

Gomes, Vitor H. F., Ijff, Stéphanie D., Raes, Niels, Amaral, Iêda Leão, Salomão, Rafael P., de Souza Coelho, Luiz, de Almeida Matos, Francisca Dionízia, Castilho, Carolina V., de Andrade Lima Filho, Diogenes, López, Dairon Cárdenas, Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Magnusson, William E., Phillips, Oliver L., Wittmann, Florian, de Jesus Veiga Carim, Marcelo, Martins, Maria Pires, Irume, Mariana Victória, Sabatier, Daniel, Molino, Jean-François, Bánki, Olaf S., da Silva Guimarães, José Renan, Pitman, Nigel C. A., Piedade, Maria Teresa Fernandez, Mendoza, Abel Monteagudo, Luize, Bruno Garcia, Venticinque, Eduardo Martins, De Leão Novo, Evlyn Márcia Moraes, Vargas, Percy Núñez, Silva, Thiago Sanna Freire, Manzatto, Angelo Gilberto, Terborgh, John, Reis, Neidiane Farias Costa, Montero, Juan Carlos, Casula, Katia Regina, Marimon, Beatriz S., Marimon, Ben-Hur, Coronado, Euridice N. Honorio, Feldpausch, Ted R., Duque, Alvaro, Zartman, Charles Eugene, Arboleda, Nicolás Castaño, Killeen, Timothy J., Mostacedo, Bonifacio, Vasquez, Rodolfo, Schöngart, Jochen, Assis, Rafael L., Medeiros, Marcelo Brilhante, Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Andrade, Ana, Laurance, William F., Camargo, José Luís, Demarchi, Layon O., Laurance, Susan G. W., de Sousa Farias, Emanuelle, Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo Mendonça, Revilla, Juan David Cardenas, Quaresma, Adriano, Costa, Flavia R. C., Vieira, Ima Célia Guimarães, Cintra, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat, Castellanos, Hernán, Brienen, Roel, Stevenson, Pablo R., Feitosa, Yuri, Duivenvoorden, Joost F., Aymard C., Gerardo A., Mogollón, Hugo F., Targhetta, Natalia, Comiskey, James A., Vicentini, Alberto, Lopes, Aline, Damasco, Gabriel, Dávila, Nállarett, García-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Levis, Carolina, Schietti, Juliana, Souza, Priscila, Emilio, Thaise, Alonso, Alfonso, Neill, David, Dallmeier, Francisco, Ferreira, Leandro Valle, Araujo-Murakami, Alejandro, Praia, Daniel, do Amaral, Dário Dantas, Carvalho, Fernanda Antunes, de Souza, Fernanda Coelho, Feeley, Kenneth, Arroyo, Luzmila, Pansonato, Marcelo Petratti, Gribel, Rogerio, Villa, Boris, Licona, Juan Carlos, Fine, Paul V. A., Cerón, Carlos, Baraloto, Chris, Jimenez, Eliana M., Stropp, Juliana, Engel, Julien, Silveira, Marcos, Mora, Maria Cristina Peñuela, Petronelli, Pascal, Maas, Paul, Thomas-Caesar, Raquel, Henkel, Terry W., Daly, Doug, Paredes, Marcos Ríos, Baker, Tim R., Fuentes, Alfredo, Peres, Carlos A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1588-8765, Chave, Jerome, Pena, Jose Luis Marcelo, Dexter, Kyle G., Silman, Miles R., Jørgensen, Peter Møller, Pennington, Toby, Di Fiore, Anthony, Valverde, Fernando Cornejo, Phillips, Juan Fernando, Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo, von Hildebrand, Patricio, van Andel, Tinde R., Ruschel, Ademir R., Prieto, Adriana, Rudas, Agustín, Hoffman, Bruce, Vela, César I. A., Barbosa, Edelcilio Marques, Zent, Egleé L., Gonzales, George Pepe Gallardo, Doza, Hilda Paulette Dávila, de Andrade Miranda, Ires Paula, Guillaumet, Jean-Louis, Pinto, Linder Felipe Mozombite, de Matos Bonates, Luiz Carlos, Silva, Natalino, Gómez, Ricardo Zárate, Zent, Stanford, Gonzales, Therany, Vos, Vincent A., Malhi, Yadvinder, Oliveira, Alexandre A., Cano, Angela, Albuquerque, Bianca Weiss, Vriesendorp, Corine, Correa, Diego Felipe, Torre, Emilio Vilanova, van der Heijden, Geertje, Ramirez-Angulo, Hirma, Ramos, José Ferreira, Young, Kenneth R., Rocha, Maira, Nascimento, Marcelo Trindade, Medina, Maria Natalia Umaña, Tirado, Milton, Wang, Ophelia, Sierra, Rodrigo, Torres-Lezama, Armando, Mendoza, Casimiro, Ferreira, Cid, Baider, Cláudia, Villarroel, Daniel, Balslev, Henrik, Mesones, Italo, Giraldo, Ligia Estela Urrego, Casas, Luisa Fernanda, Reategui, Manuel Augusto Ahuite, Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo, Zagt, Roderick, Cárdenas, Sasha, Farfan-Rios, William, Sampaio, Adeilza Felipe, Pauletto, Daniela, Sandoval, Elvis H. Valderrama, Arevalo, Freddy Ramirez, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Isau, Garcia-Cabrera, Karina, Hernandez, Lionel, Gamarra, Luis Valenzuela, Alexiades, Miguel N., Pansini, Susamar, Cuenca, Walter Palacios, Milliken, William, Ricardo, Joana, Lopez-Gonzalez, Gabriela, Pos, Edwin and ter Steege, Hans (2018) Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data. Scientific Reports, 8. ISSN 2045-2322

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Abstract

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in ecology and conservation. Presence-only SDMs such as MaxEnt frequently use natural history collections (NHCs) as occurrence data, given their huge numbers and accessibility. NHCs are often spatially biased which may generate inaccuracies in SDMs. Here, we test how the distribution of NHCs and MaxEnt predictions relates to a spatial abundance model, based on a large plot dataset for Amazonian tree species, using inverse distance weighting (IDW). We also propose a new pipeline to deal with inconsistencies in NHCs and to limit the area of occupancy of the species. We found a significant but weak positive relationship between the distribution of NHCs and IDW for 66% of the species. The relationship between SDMs and IDW was also significant but weakly positive for 95% of the species, and sensitivity for both analyses was high. Furthermore, the pipeline removed half of the NHCs records. Presence-only SDM applications should consider this limitation, especially for large biodiversity assessments projects, when they are automatically generated without subsequent checking. Our pipeline provides a conservative estimate of a species’ area of occupancy, within an area slightly larger than its extent of occurrence, compatible to e.g. IUCN red list assessments.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 30 Jan 2018 10:30
Last Modified: 31 Jan 2024 02:16
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66134
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18927-1

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