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MaxentVariableSelection

Selecting the Best Set of Relevant Environmental Variables along with the Optimal Regularization Multiplier for Maxent Niche Modeling

v1.0-3 · Jan 23, 2018 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Complex niche models show low performance in identifying the most important range-limiting environmental variables and in transferring habitat suitability to novel environmental conditions (Warren and Seifert, 2011 <DOI:10.1890/10-1171.1>; Warren et al., 2014 <DOI:10.1111/ddi.12160>). This package helps to identify the most important set of uncorrelated variables and to fine-tune Maxent's regularization multiplier. In combination, this allows to constrain complexity and increase performance of Maxent niche models (assessed by information criteria, such as AICc (Akaike, 1974 <DOI:10.1109/TAC.1974.1100705>), and by the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUC) (Fielding and Bell, 1997 <DOI:10.1017/S0376892997000088>). Users of this package should be familiar with Maxent niche modelling.

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    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
       |                                                                   ^
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
       |                                                                   ^
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
       |                                                                   ^
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checkRd: (-1) MaxentVariableSelection-package.Rd:46: Lost braces; missing escapes or markup?
    46 | \tab Tyberghein L, Verbruggen H, Pauly K, Troupin C, Mineur F and {De Clerck}, O (2012)\cr
       |                                                                   ^

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies ggplot2 raster MaxentVariableSelection

Version History

new 1.0-3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0-3 ← 1.0-2 diff Jan 22, 2018
updated 1.0-2 ← 1.0-1 diff Apr 1, 2016
updated 1.0-1 ← 1.0-0 diff Mar 30, 2016
new 1.0-0 Sep 22, 2015