BIOMOD – a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions

TLDR

BIOMOD is a computer platform that enables ensemble forecasting of species distributions while addressing methodological uncertainties and exploring species–environment relationships. BIOMOD implements multiple modeling techniques in R, allowing users to test models, project distributions under various environmental and dispersal scenarios, assess temporal turnover, plot response curves, and evaluate species–predictor interactions, all within a free, open‑source package.

Abstract

BIOMOD is a computer platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions, enabling the treatment of a range of methodological uncertainties in models and the examination of species‐environment relationships. BIOMOD includes the ability to model species distributions with several techniques, test models with a wide range of approaches, project species distributions into different environmental conditions (e.g. climate or land use change scenarios) and dispersal functions. It allows assessing species temporal turnover, plot species response curves, and test the strength of species interactions with predictor variables. BIOMOD is implemented in R and is a freeware, open source, package.