Theory I: Ecological niches and geographic distributions

This is the first part of a training course on Species Distribution Modelling (also called Ecological Niche Modelling) taught by Richard Pearson at University College London in November 2014. The talk introduces correlative and mechanistic approaches for predicting species distributions, ecological niche theory, and the distinction between estimating geographic distributions and ecological niches. Funding was provided by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).