This book introduces the key stages of niche- based habitat suitability model building, evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of species and biodiversity. Beginning with the main theory behind ecological niches and species distributions, the book proceeds through all major steps of model building, from conceptualization and model training to model evaluation and spatio- temporal predictions. Extensive examples using R support graduate students and researchers in quantifying ecological niches and predicting species distributions with their own data, and help to address key environmental and conservation problems. Reflecting this highly active field of research, the book incorporates the latest developments from informatics and statistics, as well as using data from remote sources such as satellite imagery. A website at www.unil.ch/ hsdm contains the codes and supporting material required to run the examples and teach courses. All three authors are recognized specialists of and have contributed substantially to the development of spatial prediction methods for species’ habitat suitability and distribution modeling. They published a large number of papers, overall cumulating tens of thousands of citations, and are ISI Highly Cited Researchers.

Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models

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Vulnerability to snakebite envenoming: a global mapping of hotspots.

Want to model a species niche? A step-by-step guideline on correlative ecological niche modelling

Background 
Better knowledge of the epidemiological characteristics of snakebites could help to take measures to improve their management. The incidence and mortality of snakebites in the Americas are most often estimated from medical and scientific literature, which generally lack precision and representativeness.


Methodology/Principal findings 
Authors used the notifications of snakebites treated in health centers collected by the Ministries of Health of the American countries to estimate their incidence and mortality. Data were obtained from official reports available on-line at government sites, including those of the Ministry of Health in each country and was sustained by recent literature obtained from PubMed. The average annual incidence is about 57,500 snake bites (6.2 per 100,000 population) and mortality is close to 370 deaths (0.04 per 100,000 population), that is, between one third and half of the previous estimates. The incidence of snakebites is influenced by the abundance of snakes, which is related to (i) climate and altitude, (ii) specific preferences of the snake for environments suitable for their development, and (iii) human population density. Recent literature allowed to notice that the severity of the bites depends mainly on (i) the snake responsible for the bite (species and size) and (ii) accessibility of health care, including availability of antivenoms.


Conclusions/Significances 
The main limitation of this study could be the reliability and accuracy of the notifications by national health services. However, the data seemed consistent considering the similarity of the incidences on each side of national boundaries while the sources are distinct. However, snakebite incidence could be underestimated due to the use of traditional medicine by the patients who escaped the reporting of cases. However, gathered data corresponded to the actual use of the health facilities, and therefore to the actual demand for antivenoms, which should make it possible to improve their management.

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Incidence and mortality due to snakebite in the Americas.

Mapping hotspots and bundles of forest ecosystem services across the European Union

The effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Mexico may be reduced by a lack of guidance on intra-watershed priority zones and an overemphasis on water supply versus other services such as water quality. We explored the links between land use, water quality, and public health in central Veracruz. We identified zones of high and low cholera prevalence and evaluated the effects of land use on water quality at different scales. Production functions were used to evaluate relationships between water quality and public health. Additionally, using mitigation and defensive costs methods and a combined regression model, we estimated a marginal value per hectare of forest in avoiding public health costs associated with contaminated water. Prevalence of cholera was associated with E. coli concentrations in streams. Primary forest cover was the land use most strongly correlated with E. coli, particularly within riparian corridors of 100 m width. Our results suggest a value of water quality regulation of at least $US 90 ha−1 in riparian corridors. These results highlight the importance of targeting PES in priority areas within watersheds and considering both water quality and quantity as a means of increasing program efficiency and potencially broadening financial support for these programs.

Assessing the service of water quality regulation by quantifying the effects of land use on water quality and public health in central Veracruz, Mexico

Biophysical drivers of yield gaps and ecosystem services across different coffee-based agroforestry management types: A global meta-analysis

Payment for hydrological services (PHS) are popular tools for conserving ecosystems and their water-related services. However, improving the spatial targeting and impacts of PHS, as well as their ability to foster synergies with other ecosystem services (ES), remain challenging. We aimed at using spatial analyses to evaluate the targeting performance of Mexico's National PHS program in central Veracruz. We quantified the effectiveness of areas targeted for PHS in actually covering areas of high HS provision and social priority during 2003-2013. First, we quantified provisioning and spatial distributions of two target (water yield and soil retention), and one non-target ES (carbon storage) using InVEST. Subsequently, pairwise relationships among ES were quantified by using spatial correlation and overlap analyses. Finally, we evaluated targeting by: (i) prioritizing areas of individual and overlapping ES; (ii) quantifying spatial co-occurrences of these priority areas with those targeted by PHS; (iii) evaluating the extent to which PHS directly contribute to HS delivery; and (iv), testing if PHS targeted areas disproportionately covered areas with high ecological and social priority. We found that modelled priority areas exhibited non-random distributions and distinct spatial patterns. Our results show significant pairwise correlations between all ES suggesting synergistic relationships. However, our analysis showed a significantly lower overlap than expected and thus significant mismatches between PHS targeted areas and all types of priority areas. These findings suggest that the targeting of areas with high HS provisioning and social priority by Mexico's PHS program could be improved significantly. This study underscores: (1) the importance of using maps of HS provisioning as main targeting criteria in PHS design to channel payments towards areas that require future conservation, and (2) the need for future research that helps balance ecological and socioeconomic targeting criteria.

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Spatial analysis of ecosystem service relationships to improve targeting of payments for hydrological services

CONACYT support the postdoctoral stay of Carlos Yanez-Arenas at the University of Kansas. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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The use of ecological niche modeling to infer potential risk areas of snakebite in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

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Assessing the service of water quality regulation by quantifying the effects of land use on water quality and public health in central Veracruz, Mexico

Biophysical drivers of yield gaps and ecosystem services across different coffee-based agroforestry management types: A global meta-analysis

Spatial analysis of ecosystem service relationships to improve targeting of payments for hydrological services

The use of ecological niche modeling to infer potential risk areas of snakebite in the Mexican state of Veracruz.