Modelos predictivos en Biogeografía: aplicación para la modelización de nichos ecológicos en Geografía Física

Biogeography was born together with the modern Geography. From the beginning, mapping species distribution and the ecological meaning of the niche became one of the frontiers through which the Physical Geography has advanced. However, in some countries the ecological approach was lost in the biogeographic research carried out by geographers. In this paper, we propose a general workflow integrating Ecological Niche Modeling (ENM) within the framework of Biogeography, conceived as the geographical science that studies biodiversity patterns. In this sense, we applied the proposed workflow in order to predict the potential distribution of cork oak in Andalusia.