Final remarks

The procedure showed in this tutorial is not the result of a planned research but is just an exemplary workflow for SDM. We showed how to download occurrences data, how to clean them, how to select environmental variables and how to fit models. Finally, we showed how to obtain good maps and test useful for a publication. You must be aware that the dataset that we used has many limitations and the results obtained must not be over interpreted. It is possible that you obtain a different result when you will run the scripts provided in the tutorial. The scope of the tutorial was not to show the results of a research but just to provide a tool to start to understand how SDMs works in practice. After the reading of this tutorial It is important that you do some experimentation: try to modify settings in the procedure and see what’s happen. Take this tutorial for what it is. Do NOT use it as a black box trying to force your data in. The results will be probably incorrect. It is very important that you read recent papers and other tutorials to understand how SDMs works not only in practice but also the theory that is behind species distribution modelling.