However, suitable areas are found 46 km away from known occurrence records.
Occurrence records from our surveys included 442 locations in Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and Taiwan.
We downloaded all available occurrence records from the GBIF data portal in June 2016 (http://doi.org/10.15468/dl.org/10.15468/dl
The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (WRBU) dataset contained 10,423 occurrence records, including two recent updates with 7 records.
Correlative species distribution modelling methods are able to capture statistical relationships between occurrence records and climate, and are powerful tools for defining and projecting climatic envelopes.
Fortunately, for ethical and scientific reasons26,27,28, data sharing practices and tools like the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) were developed, facilitating access to species occurrence records.
For those willing to get their feet muddy, a whole new world of botanizing opens up, with a high probability of finding new occurrence records with relative ease.
To examine correlations between genetic and ecological divergence, we extracted environmental data from occurrence records and estimated climatic envelopes occupied by lowland taxa.
As an environmental niche model, AquaMaps was developed specifically to deal with non-representative sampling of marine species ranges, but also to address the prevailing overall paucity of available point occurrence records by incorporating expert knowledge on species habitat usage.
Aiello-Lammens, M. E., Boria, R. A., Radosavljevic, A., Vilela, B. & Anderson, R. P. spThin: an R package for spatial thinning of species occurrence records for use in ecological niche models.
In our tests, we use this gazetteer to correct geographic data from a big sample (around 142,000 occurrence records of Amazonian specimens) from SpeciesLink, a big repository of biodiversity collection records from Brazil.
