A taxonomic-based joint species distribution model for presence-only data.

ABSTRACT: Species distribution models (SDMs) are an important class of model for mapping taxa spatially and are a key tool for tackling biodiversity loss. However, most common SDMs depend on presence-absence data and, despite the accumulation and exponential growth of biological occurrence data across the globe, the available data are predominantly presence-only (i.e. they lack real absences). Although presence-only SDMs do exist, they inevitably require assumptions about absences of the considered taxa and they are specified mostly for single species and, thus, do not exploit fully the information in related taxa. This greatly limits the utility of global biodiversity databases such as GBIF. Here, we present a Bayesian-based SDM for multiple species that operates directly on presence-only data by e

SUBMITTER: Escamilla Molgora JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8864348 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature