Projects

CliMod

DO ESPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS WORK? 

THE ROLE OF CLIMATE AS A DETERMINANT OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL RANGES OF SPECIES

 (PID2023-147672NB-I00) (2024-2027)

Principal investigator:  Alberto Jiménez-Valverde

Derived publications:

JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (submitted). Improving the uniform AUC (uAUC): towards a case-by-case weighting evaluation in species distribution models.

Derived software:

JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE A. (2024) vandalico: Evaluation of Presence-Absence Models. R package version 0.1.0. Available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vandalico/index.html


Ongoing Master projects (TFMs):

Potencial de invasión en la península Ibérica de la araña Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940. UAM

Potencial de invasión en la península Ibérica de la araña reclusa chilena Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet, 1849), una especie de importancia en salud pública. UCM

DistriMod

TOWARDS BETTER SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS: THEORY, TECHNIQUE, AND VALIDATION 

(CGL2017-89000-P) (2018-2021)

Principal investigator: Alberto Jimenez-Valverde

Derived publications:


RODRÍGUEZ-REY, M. & JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2024) Differing sensitivity of species distribution modelling algorithms to climate data source. Ecological Informatics., 79: 102387.
JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2022) The uniform AUC: dealing with the representativeness effect in presence-absence models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13: 1224-1236.
JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., RODRÍGUEZ-REY, M. & PEÑA-AGUILERA, P. (2021) Climate data source matters in species distribution modelling: the case of the Iberian Peninsula. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30: 67-84.
JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2021) Prevalence affects the evaluation of discrimination capacity in presence-absence species distribution models. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30: 1331-1340.
JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., ARAGÓN, P. & LOBO, J. M. (2021) Deconstructing the abundance-suitability relationship in species distribution modeling. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30: 327-338.
JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A. (2020) Sample size for the evaluation of presence-absence models. Ecological Indicators, 114: 106289.    
JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE, A., PEÑA-AGUILERA, P., BARVE, V. & BURGUILLO-MADRID, L. (2019) Photo-sharing platforms key for characterizing niche and distribution in poorly studied taxa. Insect Diversity and Conservation, 12: 389-403.

Derived software:

JIMÉNEZ-VALVERDE A. (2022) vandalico: Evaluation of Presence-Absence Models. R package version 0.0.1. Available at https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vandalico/index.html

Derived final year projects (TFGs):

Distribución potencial en Europa de la araña saltadora Phidippus regius (Araneae: Salticidae). UAH


Delimitando las áreas de interés potencial para los invertebrados amenazados de España. UAH
Estimación del nicho climático de dos especies del género Buthus (Arachnida, Scorpiones, Buthidae) en la península ibérica. UAH