Associations between habitat quality and body size in the Carpathian land snail Vestia turgida: species distribution model selection and assessment of performance

• Main Authors: Tytar, V. M., Baidashnikov, O.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Publishing House "Akademperiodyka" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 2021
• Subjects: Vestia turgida; terrestrial gastropods; ecological niche modelling; species distribution modelling; model accuracy; model evaluation; model selection; Bayesian additive regression trees; ENVIREM data set
• Online Access: https://ojs.akademperiodyka.org.ua/index.php/Zoodiversity/article/view/67

Species distribution models (SDMs) are generally thought to be good indicators of habitat suitability, and thus of species’ performance, consequently SDMs can be validated by checking whether the areas projected to have the greatest habitat quality are occupied by individuals or populations with hig...