Overview

This unit provides an introduction to species distribution modeling, covering key steps from data preparation and model training to model quality assessment. It serves as your starting point for understanding and applying species distribution models.

Learning objectives

At the end of this unit you should be able to

• differentiate between presence-only, presence-absence, and background data,
• split your data into training, validation, and test datasets,
• train a species distribution model,
• and calculate evaluation metrics to assess model performance.