A novel multivariate ecological approach to modeling freshwater mussel habitats verified by ground truthing

Identification of suitable habitat for Taxus wallichiana and Abies pindrow in moist temperate forest using maxent modelling technique

“…This method necessitates the creation of a database containing presence data and various environmental factors, as well as using GIS tools to evaluate the maps ( Peters and Stockwell, 1999 ). Different types of assessments, such as estimating the influence of climate changes on biodiversity, can be carried out using the ecological niche modeling technique ( Peterson and Siqueira, 2003 ) to depict the conservation status of endangered species ( Gaubert et al, 2006 ) to estimate invasive species occupation patterns and to investigate relation between vegetation patterns and geographical distribution of species ( Phillips et al, 2006 ) or amongst species ( Laszlo et al, 2022 , Anderson et al, 2002 ). (See Fig.…”