Use Case - Modelling Species Distributions Under Climate Change

This is a practice use case for the ecological niche modeling module developed by Dr. Hannah Owens, University of Copenhagen. For this use case, you will use the modular, R-based platform Wallace link https://wallaceecomod.github.io/ for reproducible modeling of species niches and distributions.

The platform is powered by a variety of R packages including dismo and enmeval allows and lowers the threshold for access to basic modeling functions through a user friendly graphical user interface (GUI). It is a great platform for getting you started in in niche modeling and will allow to learn the basics of modeling, explore your data and generate a backcbone R script that will allow for the repeatability of your analyses. What it will not be able to do is generate final, publishable models but it should give you a good grasp of the principles of niche modeling.