Species Distributions Toolkit

This package is a wrapper around a series of tools that are meant to simplify the building of species distribution models. The models themselves are not part of this package, which is intended to take the tedium out of data preparation. In particular, the package offers

• a wrapper around the GBIF occurrences API to access occurrence data
• ways to generate pseudo-absences based on a series of heuristics
• a simple way to represent layers as either mutable or immutable objects
• a way to collect historic and future climate and land-use data to feed into the models

This documentation is therefore pretty vast: it offers an in-depth explanation of what the component packages are doing and how they work, discusses the interactions between these packages, and offers a series of illustrations which includes some examples of models of species distributions.

If you want to contribute to the project, the best way is likely to have a look at the development dashboard, or look for possible first PRs.