Uniform Sampling of the Environmental Space

Provides functions for uniform sampling of the environmental space, designed to assist species distribution modellers in gathering ecologically relevant pseudo-absence data. The method ensures balanced representation of environmental conditions and helps reduce sampling bias in model calibration. Based on the framework described by Da Re et al. (2023) .

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USE (Uniform Sampling of the Environmental space)

The USE R package offers a collection of functions that enable the uniform sampling of the environmental space. It was specifically developed to assist species distribution modellers in gathering ecologically relevant pseudo-absences by uniformly sampling the environmental space.

Installation

The development version of USE can be installed running the code below:

# Install the released version from CRAN
# install.packages("USE") #not available yet
# Or the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("danddr/USE")

Package overview

Examples

Examples showing how to implement USE for species distribution modelling are provided in the dedicated vignette, and can also be found at https://github.com/danddr/USE_paper/tree/main/Example.