Habitat suitability estimated by niche models is largely unrelated to species abundance

Understanding the climatic conditions that enable species persistence is a central goal in ecology, and numerous statistical techniques have been developed to understand and forecast species geographic distributions based on climatic conditions (Drake, 2015; Elith & Leathwick, 2009; Phillips & Dudík, 2008). These models – commonly referred to as species distribution models or niche models (Peterson & Soberón, 2012) – attempt to estimate species occurrence probabilities or habitat suitability based on presence (and Received: 7 December 2017 | Revised: 5 July 2018 | Accepted: 18 July 2018 DOI: 10.1111/geb.12820

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  2018

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  Global Ecology and Biogeography

• Publication date

  2018-09-25

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  Geography, Environmental Science

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