SDMtoolbox
Other Useful ArcGIS toolboxes and plug-ins
- NSP AlaskaPak
- Linkage-Mapper
- Genetic Landscape Toolbox
- Landscape Genetics Toolbox
- Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools
- Circuitscape
Occurence Data Resources
- GBIF, HerpNET, MaNIS, OBIS, ORNIS, REMIB, iNaturalist, eBrid, SpeciesLink
Georeferencing Info
Georeferencing tools
Other software from SDMtoolbox creators
- Humboldt– a comprehensive R package that performs spatial analyses of species’ niche overlap in E-space (environment or climate space)
- Machuruku – an R package for phylogenetic niche modeling and estimation of ancestral distributions
- Machisplin – an R package for interpolation of noisy multi-variate data through comprehensive statistical analyses using thin-plate-smoothing splines and machine learning ensembling
Terrestrial Worldwide Climate Data Sources
CURRENT
- Chelsa – 1km – 19 bioclim variables
- Worldclim – 1km – 19 bioclim variables
- Climond – 1km – 36 bioclim variables
- MERRAclim -5km (1980, 1990s and 2000; also sea surface values)
- Microclim -15km – hourly estimates of typical microclimatic conditions: air temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, solar radiation, sky radiation and substrate temperatures from the surface to 1 m depth
- NCAR Climate Data Guide
- ecoClimte – 0.5 degree (ca. 55km) – 19 bioclimate variables
PAST
- Paleoclim.org – 1km or 5 km – 19 bioclimate variables – 11 periods spanning 3.3 Ma to 4 kya.
- Chelsa – 1km – 21 kya – 19 bioclim variables
- Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project Phase III
- NCAR Climate Data Guide
- NOAA: Paleoclimate Modeling
- PaleoView – 1 degree (ca. 111 km) – continuous data from LGM to current time
- DeepMIP – deep time paleoclimatic models
- ecoClimte – 0.5 degree (ca. 55km) – 19 bioclimate variables
FUTURE
- CMIP6 from IPCC5 via Worldclim – 1km – 19 bioclim variables
- CMIP5 from IPCC5 via International Centre for Tropical Agriculture – 1km
- ecoClimate – 0.5 degree (ca. 55km) – 19 bioclimate variables
Oceanic and Freshwater Climate Data Sources
- Current and Past Climate and Salinity Data for Oceans- 10km: MARSPEC & Paleo-MARSPEC
- Current Data for Freshwater Environments- 11km: Aquatic Climate
- Current and Future Data for Oceans -9km: Bio-ORACLE
- Current and Recent Past for Oceans: NCAR Climate Data Guide
Regional Climate Data Sources
- Current Climate, > 200 biologically-relevent variables (N. and S. America): ClimateXX- North America (Western, Alberta, British Columbia, all North America, South America.) See also: Andreas Hamman’s personal page
- Current and Past Data (N. America): PRISM Group Climate Data
- Current and Future Data (N. America only): AdaptWest
- Current Data (Mexico): Atlas Climático Digital de México) (see here for downloads)
- Future Data (United States), also hydrology projections: Bias Corrected and Downscaled WCRP CMIP3 and CMIP5 Climate and Hydrology Projections
- Future Climate (many regions): CORDEX
- Snowfall and winter severity (Eastern N. America): Future Snowfall and Winter Severity for Central-Eastern North America
- Climate (temperature, precipitation, wind speed, soil temperature) at resolutions of 36 km at hourly temporal resolution for 1980-1999 and 2080-2099. (Levy et al. 2016. Ecology 97:1888)
- Current climate rasters: 6-km resolution (N. America): Livneh et al. 2015 Scientific Data 2:150042.
- Climate and bioclimatic variables for the period 21,000 ybp to 2100CE at 0.5° spatial resolution and decadal to monthly resolution (N. America): Lorenz et al. 2016
- Current and future climate (N. America):NARCCAP (North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program)
- Current, past, and future climate (N. America): Microclimates and vegetation for the past and the future at spatial and temporal resolutions of 36 km (approximately 0.3°) and 1h
Weather Data Sources
- TerraClim – 4km – monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958-2019 for global surfances
- Daymet – 4km – Daily minimum and maximum temperature, precipitation occurrence and amount, humidity, shortwave radiation, snow water equivalent, and day length for N. America
- NASA NEX-DCP30 – 1km – Monthly min/max temperature and precipitation rasters from GCM predictions for 1950 to 2099 at 30-arcsec (~800 m) resolution for CMIP5 for N. America
- PRISM( United States | British Columbia) – 4 km – weekly climate from 1895 to present (US and Canada)
- CDO (Climate Data Online) – climate and weather records
- NRLSSC – sea surface temperature
Paleo- Atlases
Topography Data
- MERIT DEM 30M: Multi-Error-Removed Improved-Terrain DEM
- Copernicus DEM 30M: global coverage at 30 meter resolution
- Bathymetry data: General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
- Global Elevation data: GTOPO30
- EarthEnv: lots of elevation and topography based layers at 1km
- Geomorpho90: 90 meter global-level geomorphons
Other GIS Data Sources
- NASA Earth Observatory: lots of good global stuff: clouds, carbon monoxide, fire, vegetation, water vapor, chlorophyll, aerosol optical depth, net primary productivity, sea surface temperature, snow cover… and growing
- Worldwide High Resolution Soil Models: Soilgrids.org
- GIS data on fire regimes and fuel in USA: Landfire.gov
- Human Influence Data (2000): Last of the Wild2
- Human Influence Data (2016): The Global Human Modification map
- Geology: One Geology
- Gridded snow cover data from 2003 onward at 1-km spatial resolution and 1-d temporal resolution (US): SNODAS (Snow Data Assimilation System)
- Web-based interface to find places with similar climates: Climate Analogs
- Great selection of land cover, elevation, freshwater-relevant variables, and cloud cover rasters: EarthEnv
- Lots of good GIS data: DIVA-GIS
- More GIS data: EDENext Data
Species Distribution Modeling Software
- MaxEnt
- R-package: Biomod2
- R-package: Raster
- R-package: DISMO
- R-package: ENMeval
- DIVA-GIS
- OpenModeller
- Adaptation Online Modeling
Other GIS Programs
- Isolation by resistance: Circuitscape
- Spatial Analyses of Biodiversity: Biodiverse
- Spatial Statistical Analyses: SAM (Spatial Analysis in Macroecology)
- Spatial Statistical Analyses: Passage (Pattern Analysis, Spatial Statistics and Geographic Exegesis)
- Software to simulate emission scenarios on standard PC: MAGICC (Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change)
- spatial downscaling (not free): ANUSPLIN
- spatial downscaling: SNAP
- great GIS: SAGA GIS