NicheA: creating virtual species and ecological niches in multivariate environmental scenarios
NicheA: creating virtual species and ecological niches in multivariate environmental scenarios
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DOI：
10.1111/ecog.01961
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
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5.9
通讯作者：
Escobar, Luis E.
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作者：
Qiao, Huijie;Peterson, A. Townsend;Escobar, Luis E.
在新兴的分布生态学领域，迫切需要稳健的方法来生成虚拟物种，以评估生态位和物种分布建模技术的性能，并在生物地理学中产生新的问题。虚拟物种提供了检验假设和方法的机会，这些假设和方法基于已知的和无偏的分布。我们提出了生态位分析器(NicheA)，这是一个开发用于生成虚拟物种的工具包，该工具遵循由物种占据的n维空间的Hutchinsonian方法。生态位模型是在环境空间中生成、分析和可视化的，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是在一个稳定和用户友好的Java平台上实现的。该软件、在线手册和用户支持可在以下网址免费获得。
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 .