The package provides a framework for generating virtual species distributions, a procedure increasingly used in ecology to improve species distribution models. It integrates the existing methodological approaches with the objective of generating virtual species distributions with increased ecological realism.

The package allows users to create and evaluate ensembles of species distribution model (SDM) predictions. Functionality is offered through R functions or a GUI (R Shiny app). This tool can assist users in identifying spatial uncertainties and making informed conservation and management decisions.

A set of functions for reproducible and shareable analysis of models from an online repository, comparing and diagnostic models. The package has been developed specifically to improve reproducibility and comparability of SDMs in R by allowing users to encode entire SDM analyses as repeatable and extensible workflows consisting of independently executable, community-contributed modules. The module-workflow structure enables scientists to more easily create and share components of their analysis, and then, access, modify, reuse and combine the components of others.

The package provides a likelihood-based approach to modeling species distributions using presence-only data. In contrast to the popular software program Maxent, this approach yields estimates of the probability of occurrence, which is a natural descriptor of a species' distribution.

The package includes several methods that helps users to create virtual distribution map. Such maps can be used for Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) studies, which use environmental data for sites of occurrence of a species to predict all the sites where the environmental conditions are suitable for the species to persist, and may be expected to occur.

A set of functions for preparing data, training and evaluating dismo models, and comparing ecological niches. It complements to dismo. The package includes functions for implementing species distribution models (SDMs) and ecological niche models (ENMs). The heart of the package is a set of "training" functions which automatically tune and parameterize a model based on several popular algorithms (e.g., MaxEnt, GLMs, BRTs, GAMs, etc.). Ancillary tools include estimation of spatial sampling bias, model evaluation, and calculation of biotic velocity (speed and direction at which a species' range moves through time).

A user-friendly framework that enables the training and the evaluation of species distribution models (SDMs). The package implements functions for data driven variable selection and model tuning and includes numerous utilities to display the results. All the functions used to select variables or to tune model hyperparameters have an interactive real-time chart displayed in the 'RStudio' viewer pane during their execution.

The package includes a set of procedures to fit species distributions models from occurrence records and environmental variables, using 'glmnet' for model fitting. Model structure is the same as for the 'Maxent' Java package, version 3.4.0, with the same feature types and regularization options.

A collection of R functions and datasets to support spatial ecology analyses with a focus on pre, core and post modelling analyses of species distribution, niche quantification and community assembly. Written by current and former members and collaborators of the ecospat group of Antoine Guisan, Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) and Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST), University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

The Maxent service can take as input also a set of parameters (optional), which have default values in case the user does not want to configure them.