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This is a short tutorial for constructing species distribution models in R using Shape-Constrained Generalized Additive Models, based on the development and application to marine fish by Citores et al. 2020 Ecological Modelling 418:108926.

The code is available in AZTI's github repository and the book is readily available here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

This tutorial has been supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 862428 MISSION ATLANTIC project.

To cite this book, please use:

Valle, M., Citores, L., Ibaibarriaga, L., Chust, C. (2023) GAM-NICHE: Shape-Constrained GAMs to build Species Distribution Models under the ecological niche theory. AZTI. https://doi.org/10.57762/fzpy-6w51