Identifying relevant predictors for marine species distribution modelling with MarineSPEED

Bosch et al. (2017) showed that while temperature is a relevant predictor of global marine species distributions, considerable variation in predictor relevance is linked to the species distribution modelling (SDM) set-up. A standardized benchmark dataset (MarineSPEED) was created by combining records from OBIS and GBIF with environmental data from Bio-ORACLE and MARSPEC. Using this dataset, predictor relevance was analysed under different variations of SDMs for all combinations of predictors from eight correlation groups.