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A. Marcia Barbosa

@ambarbosa.bsky.social

Consultant and instructor on biogeography, macroecology, species distribution models, GIS and R programming. FOSS user and developer: modtools.wordpress.com

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A. Marcia Barbosa @ambarbosa.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Registrations now open for the new edition of the workshop "Take your species distribution models to the next level with Bayesian non-parametric regression"! Organized by @biogeography.bsky.social. Sign up at www.biogeography.org/news/news/wo...

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Workshop — Take your species distribution models to the next level with Bayesian non-parametric regression

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) are a powerful machine learning technique with very promising applications in ecology and biogeography in general, and in species distribution modelling (SDM)...

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Jamie M. Kass @ndimhypervol.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Check out our new paper in @EcographyJourna! A big team of #R pkg developers, we show how to improve analysis standards by using different pkgs for species distribution models together, a new pkg to catalog and explore them, and 3 extensive...

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A. Marcia Barbosa @ambarbosa.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Setting a good background region for SDM/ENM can be tricky when survey effort is heavily biased - as it often is. I've implemented some new approaches in #Rstats package fuzzySim. Anyone up for trying them out? modtools.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/d... #gis #gischat #ecology #biogeography #macroecology

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Delimiting the modelling background for scattered uneven occurrence data

In species distribution modelling and ecological niche modelling (SDM & ENM), the region from where background or pseudoabsence points are picked is key to how well a model turns out. This regi…

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 30/01/2024

To help students develop a sense of how our disciplines evolve, we should also teach from papers that seem a little outdated 🧪

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Vol. 2 - I left my methods section in El Segundo

I love A Tribe Called Quest. But there isn't a lot of hip hop like that anymore. Whenever you hear these old school beats now, it is likely as part of a...

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