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Joint species distribution models (JSDM) are among the most important statistical tools in community ecology. They are routinely used for inference and various prediction tasks, such as to build species distribution maps or biomass…

Species distribution models (SDMs) aim to predict the distribution of species by relating occurrence data with environmental variables. Recent applications of deep learning to SDMs have enabled new avenues, specifically the inclusion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Nina van Tiel , Robin Zbinden , Emanuele Dalsasso , Benjamin Kellenberger , Loïc Pellissier , Devis Tuia

1. Joint species distribution models (JSDMs) have gained considerable traction among ecologists over the past decade, due to their capacity to answer a wide range of questions at both the species- and the community-level. The family of…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-19 Pekka Korhonen , Francis K. C. Hui , Jenni Niku , Sara Taskinen , Bert van der Veen

Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly applied across macroscales. Such models typically assume that a single set of regression coefficients can adequately describe species-environment relationships and/or population trends.…

1. Joint Species Distribution models (JSDMs) explain spatial variation in community composition by contributions of the environment, biotic associations, and possibly spatially structured residual covariance. They show great promise as a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-28 Maximilian Pichler , Florian Hartig

Joint species distribution models are popular in ecology for modeling covariate effects on species occurrence, while characterizing cross-species dependence. Data consist of multivariate binary indicators of the occurrences of different…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-08 Federica Stolf , David B. Dunson

Conservation science depends on an accurate understanding of what's happening in a given ecosystem. How many species live there? What is the makeup of the population? How is that changing over time? Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) seeks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Sara Beery , Elijah Cole , Joseph Parker , Pietro Perona , Kevin Winner

In ecology we may find scenarios where the same phenomenon (species occurrence, species abundance, etc.) is observed using two different types of samplers. For instance, species data can be collected from scientific sampling with a…

Species Distribution Models (SDMs) play a vital role in biodiversity research, conservation planning, and ecological niche modeling by predicting species distributions based on environmental conditions. The selection of predictors is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Robin Zbinden , Nina van Tiel , Gencer Sumbul , Chiara Vanalli , Benjamin Kellenberger , Devis Tuia

Continuous space species distribution models (SDMs) have a long-standing history as a valuable tool in ecological statistical analysis. Geostatistical and preferential models are both common models in ecology. Geostatistical models are…

Applications · Statistics 2023-07-17 Mario Figueira , David Conesa , Antonio López-Quílez , Iosu Paradinas

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used to predict species' geographic distributions, serving as critical tools for ecological research and conservation planning. Typically, SDMs relate species occurrences to environmental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hager Radi Abdelwahed , Mélisande Teng , Robin Zbinden , Laura Pollock , Hugo Larochelle , Devis Tuia , David Rolnick

This paper focuses on a core task in computational sustainability and statistical ecology: species distribution modeling (SDM). In SDM, the occurrence pattern of a species on a landscape is predicted by environmental features based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Eugene Seo , Rebecca A. Hutchinson , Xiao Fu , Chelsea Li , Tyler A. Hallman , John Kilbride , W. Douglas Robinson

The difficulty of monitoring biodiversity at fine scales and over large areas limits ecological knowledge and conservation efforts. To fill this gap, Species Distribution Models (SDMs) predict species across space from spatially explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Lukas Picek , Christophe Botella , Maximilien Servajean , César Leblanc , Rémi Palard , Théo Larcher , Benjamin Deneu , Diego Marcos , Pierre Bonnet , Alexis Joly

Species distribution models (SDMs), which aim to predict species occurrence based on environmental variables, are widely used to monitor and respond to biodiversity change. Recent deep learning advances for SDMs have been shown to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Catherine Villeneuve , Benjamin Akera , Mélisande Teng , David Rolnick

Determining spatial distributions of species and communities are key objectives of ecology and conservation. Joint species distribution models use multi-species detection-nondetection data to estimate species and community distributions.…

Applications · Statistics 2022-12-15 Jeffrey W. Doser , Andrew O. Finley , Sudipto Banerjee

We focus on species distribution modeling using global-scale presence-only data, leveraging geographical and environmental features to map species ranges, as in previous studies. However, we innovate by integrating taxonomic classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Srikumar Sastry , Xin Xing , Aayush Dhakal , Subash Khanal , Adeel Ahmad , Nathan Jacobs

We discuss species distribution models (SDM) for biodiversity studies in ecology. SDM plays an important role to estimate abundance of a species based on environmental variables that are closely related with the habitat of the species. The…

Applications · Statistics 2023-05-01 Osamu Komori , Yusuke Saigusa , Shinto Eguchi

In the face of significant biodiversity decline, species distribution models (SDMs) are essential for understanding the impact of climate change on species habitats by connecting environmental conditions to species occurrences.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Robin Zbinden , Nina van Tiel , Marc Rußwurm , Devis Tuia

Species distribution models (SDMs) are key tools in ecology, conservation and management of natural resources. They are commonly trained by scientific survey data but, since surveys are expensive, there is a need for complementary sources…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-03 Karel Kaurila , Sanna Kuningas , Antti Lappalainen , Jarno Vanhatalo

Species sampling processes have long served as the fundamental framework for modeling random discrete distributions and exchangeable sequences. However, data arising from distinct but related sources require a broader notion of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Beatrice Franzolini , Antonio Lijoi , Igor Prünster , Giovanni Rebaudo
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