Testing species assemblage predictions from stacked and joint species distribution models

By Damaris Zurell, N. E. Zimmermann, Helge Gross, Andri Baltensweiler, Thomas Sattler, Rafael O. Wüest. Journal of Biogeography, 2019

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Predicting the spatial distribution of species assemblages remains an important challenge in biogeography. Recently, it has been proposed to extend correlative species distribution models (SDMs) by taking into account (a) covariance between species occurrences in so‐called joint species distribution models (JSDMs) and (b) ecological assembly rules within the SESAM (spatially explicit species assemblage modelling) framework. Yet, little guidance exists on how these approaches could be combined. We, thus, aim to compare the accuracy of assemblage predictions derived from stacked and from joint SDMs.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models (2020, methodology): “In principle, this protocol should work for any empirically-based biodiversity model beyond single species distribution models, including e.g. community-level models (D’Amen et al. 2017, Norberg et al. 2019, Zurell et al. 2020) and models of functional composition (Wüest et al. 2018).”