It is a tool package for running and analyzing species distribution models with Bayesian additive regression trees (BARTs), including basic model summary statistics and diagnostics, variable importance measures, and plotting.

SDMPlay is a pedagogic package that allows to compute SDMs, to understand the overall method, and to produce model outputs. The package, along with its associated vignettes, highlights the different steps of model calibration and describes how to choose the best methods to generate accurate and relevant outputs. SDMPlay proposes codes to apply a popular machine learning approach, BRT (Boosted Regression Trees) and introduces MaxEnt (Maximum Entropy).