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This is a short tutorial for constructing species distribution models in R using Shape-Constrained Generalized Additive Models Pya and Wood, 2015, based on the development and application to marine fish by Citores et al. 2020.
The code is available in AZTI's github repository and the book is readily available here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
This tutorial has been supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 862428 MISSION ATLANTIC project.
To cite this book, please use:
Valle, M., Citores, L., Ibaibarriaga, L., Chust, C. (2023) GAM-NICHE: Shape-Constrained GAMs to build Species Distribution Models under the ecological niche theory. AZTI. https://doi.org/10.57762/fzpy-6w51