Can habitat suitability estimated from MaxEnt predict colonizations and extinctions?

MaxEnt has been widely used to model species’ geographic distributions as functions of environmental variables and to predict changes in distributions in response to environmental change. Here, we test the predictive ability of MaxEnt models through time by modelling colonizations and extinctions.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Diversity and Distributions: A journal of biological invasions and biodiversity

• Publication date

  2021-02-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/ddi.13238
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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