New paper from our working group: climate niche modeling of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe. It’s a simple approach of manually defining bioclimatic limits based on modern analogs. But it worked reasonably well.

Merkens, Lisa, Tim Anders, Wolfgang Traylor, Hervé Bocherens, and Thomas Hickler. 2025. “A Simple Climate-Driven Semi-Mechanistic Vegetation Model Can Explain the Pan-Asian Extent of the Glacial Mammoth Steppe.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 112962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112962.
#mammoth #pleistocene #SpeciesDistributionModeling

New from me: documenting a new flea beetle in North America.

(I contributed the distribution modeling, actual entomologists did the insect work!)

#InvasiveSpecies #SpeciesDistributionModeling #entomology

https://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=120340&display_type=list&element_type=1&journal_name=bdj

First draft of my notes on cleaning #gbif records for use in #SpeciesDistributionModeling (and really any application)

https://plantarum.ca/2024/04/04/record-cleaning/

#rstats

@jladata tak toto byl takový výkop v tématu, studentka pomocí #SpeciesDistributionModeling vytipovala pobřežní oblasti, které jsou vhodné pro výskyt 2 invazních krevetek . Ukázalo to oblasti, kde zatím není ani jedna, nebo se o tom neví. Určitě se dá co vylepšovat, ale ukázalo to směr kam by se dalo v práci pokračovat, a hlavně se studentka naučila pracovat v #rstat 🙂. Práce je tady: https://portal.osu.cz/wps/portal/dipl?signatura=46154

Registraion on #IBSPrague2024 workshops is open. There are three one-day worshop. Two are related with species distribution modeling (ecological niche modeling) with 'sdm' and 'Wallace' R packages (led by their creators!), and third is on use of #LiDAR data in biogeography. https://www.biogeography.org/prague2024_home/programme/ #biogeography #macroecology #ecology #WallaceEcoMod #sdm #enm #SpeciesDistributionModeling #EcologicalNicheModeling