NicheA: creating virtual species and ecological niches in multivariate environmental scenarios

IF 5.4 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Ecography Pub Date : 2015-12-10 DOI:10.1111/ecog.01961

Huijie Qiao, A. Townsend Peterson, Lindsay P. Campbell, Jorge Soberón, Liqiang Ji, Luis E. Escobar

引用次数: 144

Abstract

Robust methods by which to generate virtual species are needed urgently in the emerging field of distributional ecology to evaluate performance of techniques for modeling ecological niches and species distributions and to generate new questions in biogeography. Virtual species provide the opportunity to test hypotheses and methods based on known and unbiased distributions. We present Niche Analyst (NicheA), a toolkit developed to generate virtual species following the Hutchinsonian approach of an n-multidimensional space occupied by the species. Ecological niche models are generated, analyzed, and visualized in an environmental space, and then projected to the geographic space in the form of continuous or binary species distribution models. NicheA is implemented in a stable and user-friendly Java platform. The software, online manual, and user support are freely available at < http://nichea.sourceforge.net >.

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生态位a:在多元环境情景中创造虚拟物种和生态位

在新兴的分布生态学领域，迫切需要生成虚拟物种的强大方法来评估生态位和物种分布建模技术的性能，并在生物地理学中提出新的问题。虚拟物种提供了检验基于已知和无偏分布的假设和方法的机会。我们提出的生态位分析(NicheA)，一个工具包开发，以产生虚拟物种的哈钦森的方法，由物种占据的n多维空间。生态位模型是在环境空间中生成、分析和可视化，然后以连续或二元物种分布模型的形式投影到地理空间。NicheA是在一个稳定且用户友好的Java平台上实现的。该软件、在线手册和用户支持可在<http://nichea.sourceforge.net祝辞。

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Ecography 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

11.60

自引率

3.40%

发文量

122

审稿时长

8-16 weeks

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