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Associations Between Habitat Quality And Body Size In The Carpathian-Podolian Land Snail Vestia Turgida: Species Distribution Model Selection And Assessment Of Performance

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  • 1. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine vul. B. Khmelnytskoho, 15, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine & E-mail: vtytar@gmail.com
  • 2. National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, Kyiv, 01601 Ukraine & E-mail: anarete@i.ua & expressing the variance explained by the fixed terms in the regression models, was adopted as a measure of functional accuracy, and used to rank the SDMs accordingly. In this respect, the Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) algorithm gave the best result, despite the low AUC and TSS. By restricting our analysis to the BART algorithm only, a variety of sets of environmental variables commonly or less used in the construction of SDMs were explored and tested according to their functional accuracy. In this respect, the SDM produced using the ENVIREM data set gave the best result.

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Tytar, V., Baidashnikov, O. (2021): Associations Between Habitat Quality And Body Size In The Carpathian-Podolian Land Snail Vestia Turgida: Species Distribution Model Selection And Assessment Of Performance. Zoodiversity 55 (1): 25-40, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2021.01.025, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2021.01.025

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