<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div id="yiv576997507"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040">Hi,</div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040"><br></div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040">I am trying to learn BIOMOD by using the sample Sp.Data and by following the instructions in BIOMOD Tutorial, 2012.</div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040"><br></div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040">What interests me is to predict species distributions in other regions or under climate change scenarios. Unfortunately, I have not really understood what is the procedure to follow; I am afraid that t<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">he tutorial can be very confusing for non experts in
SDM...</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Here are my questions:</span></div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040"><br></div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040">1) How can I obtain info about the predictive performance of a model on my already known localities? There are three functions, <span style="font-style: italic;">Models()</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">CurrentPred()</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">PredictionBestModel</span><span style="font-style: italic;">()</span>, whose differences I find hard to understand.</div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040"><br></div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040">2) Under what criterion can someone chose the best model for new datasets (e.g. other regions or climate change scenarios)? Is the best model for my dataset also the best for a new dataset?</div><div
id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040"><br></div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040">3) What is the difference between <span style="font-style: italic;">Projections() </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">Ensemble.Forecasting()</span>? Which of these two functions is suitable for predicting the species' presence in another region? </div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040"><br></div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040">4) I have information about my species' presence but not for their absence. Does this still mean that I have to create a presence-absence table and then use pseudo-absences?</div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040"><br></div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040">Cheers,</div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040"><br></div><div id="yiv576997507yui_3_2_0_15_132956281051040">Andreas</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>