Aim and Scope

This tutorial does not pretend to be an exhaustive guide on species distribution models. It wants to provide some practical advices on how to perform first basis steps to students and researchers that are not familiar with SDM. The tutorial is not intended as a treaty of statistics and modelling. Readers should be already familiar with the R statistical environment, have some basic knowledge of statistics and be familiar with ecology theory needed for a correct design of the analysis and its interpretation. The example of SDM provided by this tutorial is relatively simple (if you are familiar with R) and it should be not difficult to apply the same workflow to your own data.