%0 Journal Article
%T More complex distribution models or more representative data?
%A Jorge M Lobo
%J Biodiversity Informatics
%D 2008
%I University of Kansas
%X Distribution models for species are increasingly used to summarize species¡¯ geography in conservation analyses. These models use increasingly sophisticated modeling techniques, but often lack detailed examination of the quality of the biological occurrence data on which they are based. I analyze the results of the best comparative study of the performance of different modeling techniques, which used pseudo-absence data selected at random. I provide an example of variation in model accuracy depending on the type of absence information used, showing that good model predictions depend most critically on better biological data.
%K distribution models
%K model reliability
%K pseudo-absences
%K conservation usefulness
%U https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/jbi/article/view/40/1550