A Assignment: 01

Until next session:

  1. Select one paper from the list provided below.
  2. Read the selected paper carefully.
  3. Summarize the main topic of the paper in a few sentences (not more than 5!).
  4. Identify and list three to five key pieces of information from the paper.
  5. Upload your summary and key points as PDF to ILIAS (not more than 1 Page).

Choose one of the following papers for your assignment:

Guisan, A., & Zimmermann, N. E. (2000). Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology. Ecological Modelling, 135(2–3), 147–186. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3800(00)00354-9

Guisan, A., Tingley, R., Baumgartner, J. B., Naujokaitis‐Lewis, I., Sutcliffe, P. R., Tulloch, A. I. T., Regan, T. J., Brotons, L., McDonald‐Madden, E., Mantyka‐Pringle, C., Martin, T. G., Rhodes, J. R., Maggini, R., Setterfield, S. A., Elith, J., Schwartz, M. W., Wintle, B. A., Broennimann, O., Austin, M., … Buckley, Y. M. (2013). Predicting species distributions for conservation decisions. Ecology Letters, 16(12), 1424–1435. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12189

Zurell, D., Franklin, J., König, C., Bouchet, P. J., Dormann, C. F., Elith, J., Fandos, G., Feng, X., Guillera‐Arroita, G., Guisan, A., Lahoz‐Monfort, J. J., Leitão, P. J., Park, D. S., Peterson, A. T., Rapacciuolo, G., Schmatz, D. R., Schröder, B., Serra‐Diaz, J. M., Thuiller, W., … Merow, C. (2020). A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models. Ecography, 43(9), 1261–1277. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04960

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