Open AccessBIOMOD – a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions
Author(s) -
Thuiller Wilfried,
Lafourcade Bruno,
Engler Robin,
Araújo Miguel B.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
ecography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.973
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1600-0587
pISSN - 0906-7590
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2008.05742.x
Subject(s) - biological dispersal , range (aeronautics) , species distribution , plot (graphics) , ecology , r package , ensemble forecasting , climate change , computer science , environmental niche modelling , environmental science , machine learning , statistics , biology , mathematics , ecological niche , engineering , population , demography , computational science , sociology , habitat , aerospace engineering
BIOMOD is a computer platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions, enabling the treatment of a range of methodological uncertainties in models and the examination of species‐environment relationships. BIOMOD includes the ability to model species distributions with several techniques, test models with a wide range of approaches, project species distributions into different environmental conditions (e.g. climate or land use change scenarios) and dispersal functions. It allows assessing species temporal turnover, plot species response curves, and test the strength of species interactions with predictor variables. BIOMOD is implemented in R and is a freeware, open source, package.