1. Large-scale conservation planning requires the identification of priority areas in which species have a high likelihood of long-term persistence. This typically requires high spatial resolution data on species and their habitat. Such data are rarely available at a large geographical scale, so distribution modelling is often required to identify the locations of priority areas. However, distr...

Northern Eurasia is extensive and includes terrestrial aquatic ecosystems that cover several natural zones access to the seas of three oceans. As a result, it has been invaded by numerous invasive alien species (IAS) over large temporal spatial scales. The purpose this research was assess invasion trends construct distribution models for Russian TOP-100 most dangerous IAS. Environmentally suita...

Predicting species potential and future distribution has become a relevant tool in biodiversity monitoring and conservation. In this data article we present the suitability map of a virtual species generated based on two bioclimatic variables, and a dataset containing more than 700,000 random observations at the extent of Europe. The dataset includes spatial attributes such as: distance to road...

BACKGROUND Earthworms are important for maintaining soil ecosystem functioning and serve as indicators of soil fertility. However, detection of earthworms is time-consuming, which hinders the assessment of earthworm abundances with high sampling density over entire fields. Recent developments of mobile terrestrial sensor platforms for proximal soil sensing (PSS) provided new tools for collectin...

Species distribution models are generic empirical techniques that have a number of applications. One these applications is to determine which environmental conditions most important for species. The calculation this variable importance depends on assumptions, including the observations used estimate independent each other. Spatial autocorrelation, common feature factors confounds assumption. Be...

Potential impacts of projected climate change on biodiversity are often assessed using single-species bioclimatic ‘envelope’ models. Such models are a special case of species distribution models in which the current geographical distribution of species is related to climatic variables so to enable projections of distributions under future climate change scenarios. This work reviews a number of ...