The priority of prediction in ecological understanding

By J. Houlahan, S. T. McKinney, T. M. Anderson, Brian J. McGill. 2017

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Comparing sample bias correction methods for species distribution modeling using virtual species (2021, background): “The emphasis on predictive models over explanation has been a trend in ecology over the past several decades (Clark et al. 2001, Evans et al. 2012, Houlahan et al. 2017, Maris et al. 2018) and has led to substantial developments in predictive ecology, such as machine learning methods (Christin et…”
A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels (2019, background): “(2017), Ridgeway (2017) GAM generalized additive models GAM.”
Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models. (2018, background): “[1] note, ‘transferability is critical to [scientific] understanding because understanding without transferability is [ .”