SDMvspecies: a software for creating virtual species for species distribution modelling

Abstract

The following is a report on software developed to create virtual species for the study of species distribution modelling (SDM). SDMvspecies provides several methods to create virtual species. The package is designed to be simple and intuitive, even for users who are not familiar with the R language. SDMvspecies is available online free of charge from < http://cran.r‐project.org/web/packages/sdmvspecies/ >.