Notes from SDM Meeting (10.31.2023)

Purpose of Meeting

To address concerns that the Maxent model (under ENMevaluate()) may be incorrectly predicting the species distribution of Centris pallida.

Summary

• Summary of research question.
• Went over recent approaches to project.

• Using observation data from GBIF.
• Using predicted climate data from CMIP5.
• First modeling attempt was using dismo::maxent()
• Started working with only bee data to save time and repetitiveness. Will resume running host plants through Maxent model when a good one has been settled on.
• Second modeling attempt was using ENMevaluate(). Results were presented and rose concern about the predictions being biologically reasonable.

• Discussed approaches that might help make a more appropriate model.

• Range maps of species for better reasoning on why we cropped the data to those points.
• Including elevation (Digital Elevation Models) / land cover data (maybe, if really needed).
• Using CMIP6 data (newer version of climate data, but needs poking around. May need to use Jeff's data from Swallowtail project).
• Looking through bioclimatic / elevation variable relationship to suitability plots. Will help determine which to keep/remove from model.

• Also to do.

• Prepare summary and table of variable, variable ranking, and plot descriptions for project group. And probably for paper supplement.
• Start a draft of manuscript.

Slides

Link to slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d2uHmSgGcTte9LQSzxvaJz3A55CM7VBslELbNmPQR9k/edit?usp=sharing