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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

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

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

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) 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.…

Understanding how species are distributed across landscapes over time is a fundamental question in biodiversity research. Unfortunately, most species distribution models only target a single species at a time, despite strong ecological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Di Chen , Yexiang Xue , Shuo Chen , Daniel Fink , Carla Gomes

Species distribution models (SDM) are a key tool in ecology, conservation and management of natural resources. Two key components of the state-of-the-art SDMs are the description for species distribution response along environmental…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-11-08 Jarno Vanhatalo , Marcelo Hartmann , Lari Veneranta

We address an important problem in ecology called Species Distribution Modeling (SDM), whose goal is to predict whether a species exists at a certain position on Earth. In particular, we tackle a challenging version of this task, where we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Shiran Yuan , Hao Zhao

Climate change poses an extreme threat to biodiversity, making it imperative to efficiently model the geographical range of different species. The availability of large-scale remote sensing images and environmental data has facilitated the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Theresa Chen , Yao-Yi Chiang

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

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

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

The difficulty to measure or predict species community composition at fine spatio-temporal resolution and over large spatial scales severely hampers our ability to understand species assemblages and take appropriate conservation measures.…

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

This paper presents an evaluation of several approaches of plants species distribution modeling based on spatial, environmental and co-occurrences data using machine learning methods. In particular, we re-evaluate the environmental…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Benjamin Deneu , Maximilien Servajean , Christophe Botella , Alexis Joly

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…

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

The post-2020 global biodiversity framework needs ambitious, research-based targets. Estimating the accelerated extinction risk due to climate change is critical. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) measures the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-12 Joaquim Estopinan , Pierre Bonnet , Maximilien Servajean , François Munoz , Alexis Joly

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

Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, impacting ecosystem services necessary to ensure food, water, and human health and well-being. Understanding the distribution of species and their habitats is crucial for conservation…

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