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Robert L. Richards

Georgia Institute of TechnologyORCID 0000-0003-4131-2732Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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EcologyEcographyPeer-reviewedJan 21, 2026

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Flexible Methods for Species Distribution Modeling with Small Samples

Brian Maitner, Robert L. Richards, Ben Carlson…·Cory Merow

For species with 20 or fewer occurrence records, 24 of 31 species distribution models had AUC distributions not significantly different from Maxnet's; vote-counting ensembles give upper and lower range bounds.

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multiple speciesplant (other)

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