MaxentVariableSelection-package: Selecting the Best Set of Relevant Environmental Variables along with the
Optimal Regularization Multiplier for Maxent Niche Modeling
Description
Complex niche models show low performance in identifying
the most important range-limiting environmental variables and in
transferring habitat suitability to novel environmental conditions
(Warren and Seifert, 2011; Warren et al., 2014). This package helps to
identify the most important set of uncorrelated variables and to
fine-tune Maxent's regularization multiplier. In combination, this
allows to constrain complexity and increase perforance of Maxent niche
models (assessed by information criteria, such as AICc (Akaike, 1974) ,
and by the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUC)
(Fielding and Bell, 1997). Users of this package should be familiar with
Maxent niche modelling.Citation
To cite the package 'MaxentVariableSelection' in publications use:
Jueterbock A, Smolina I, Coyer JA and Hoarau, G (2016)
The fate of the Arctic seaweed Fucus distichus under climate change:
an ecological niche modelling approach
Ecology and Evolution 6(6), 1712-1724Details
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Package: MaxentVariableSelection
Type: Package
Version: 1.0-1
Date: 2016-03-31
Depends: R (>= 3.1.2)
Imports: ggplot2, raster
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
License: GPL (>= 2)
Literature: Akaike H (1974)
A new look at the statistical model identification
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 19:6 716--723.
Fielding AH and Bell JF (1997)
A review of methods for the assessment of prediction
errors in conservation presence/absence models
Environmental Conservation 24:1 38--49.
Jimenez-Valverde A (2012)
Insights into the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve
(AUC) as a discrimination measure in species distribution modelling
Global Ecology and Biogeography 21:4 498--507.
Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)
Bio-ORACLE: a global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modelling
Global Ecology and Biogeography 21:2 272--281.
Warren DL, Glor RE, and Turelli M (2010)
ENMTools: a toolbox for comparative studies of environmental niche
models
Ecography 33:3 607--611.
Warren DL and Seifert SN (2011)
Ecological niche modeling in Maxent: the importance of model
complexity and the performance of model selection criteria
Ecological Applications 21:2 335--342.
}