Introduction to Maxent

This module provides an introduction into using the Maxent software for modeling habitat suitability.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn when and how to use Maxent for spatial modeling.

Activities

• Topic: Maxent
  • Reading (Focus on this paper):
    • A statistical explanation of Maxent for ecologists
  • Reading (Encouraged):
    • Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America: anything goes with ecological niche modelling
  • Reading (optional): Modeling of species distributions with Maxent: extensions and a comprehensive evaluation
    • Has some additional information on regularization
  • Reading (optional but good to save a copy of):
    • MaxEnt Lambas file

Lab

Introduction to Maxent