Overview

In this unit, you will generate artificial landscapes as environmental variables for SDM. You will learn how to construct neutral landscape models (NLMs) and explore designing of realistic environmental patterns. These artificial datasets will be used in the next unit to create virtual species.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this unit, you should be able to:

• understand the importance of selecting fitting variables in species distribution modeling,
• create neutral landscape models (NLMs) in R,
• and explore multicorrelinearity between environmental variables.