Maxent at family level

[Laura Scherer]

Dear all,

I'm interested in family distributions at a large spatial scale. Instead of modelling species distributions and aggregating them to families afterwards, would it be possible to directly model the family distributions using Maxent? Is there any reason why it does not make sense to do that? Do you know of any example papers where the authors modelled distributions at a lower taxonomic resolution than species?

I appreciate your feedback.

Best regards,
Laura

[Mahmoud Saleh Abdel-Dayem]

Dear Laura,

Do you think that all species in your family have the same micro-habitat requirements (i.e. the same niche)?  

with my best regards

Mahmoud Saleh

Mahmoud Saleh Abdel-Dayem (Ph.D)
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[Sam Veloz]

I am author/ co-author on some papers using paleo data (one in press at Nature Climate Change) where we are modeling at various taxonomic levels, usually genus. Species level is somewhat arbitrary, although obvious choice for most applications. I don't think you need to assume equivalent niches among taxa within a family, you just may end up with broad niche predictions depending on among taxa niche variation. Same way you could get broad niche predictions for a species with high niche variation among local populations within a species. Whether or not it makes sense to model at the family level depends on the question you are addressing.

Cheers

Sam

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[Laura Scherer]

Hi Sam,

Thanks a lot for your reply and assessment (and sorry for replying so late. I didn't receive a notification).
I found your paper in NCC. Very interesting.

Cheers,
Laura

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