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Using MaxEnt - WCSP2012 Species Distribution Modelling Workshop 0.1 Documentation

This document provides instructions for using MaxEnt, a software for species distribution modelling. It describes loading species presence data and environmental layers, running the model, and interpreting the results. The main steps are: 1) Load species presence data and environmental raster layers, 2) Define an output directory for results, 3) Run the MaxEnt model, 4) Interpret results by opening an HTML output file in a web browser.

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Using MaxEnt - WCSP2012 Species Distribution Modelling Workshop 0.1 Documentation

This document provides instructions for using MaxEnt, a software for species distribution modelling. It describes loading species presence data and environmental layers, running the model, and interpreting the results. The main steps are: 1) Load species presence data and environmental raster layers, 2) Define an output directory for results, 3) Run the MaxEnt model, 4) Interpret results by opening an HTML output file in a web browser.

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Using MaxEnt ¶
MaxEnt is a java program for maximum entropy modelling of species’ geographic distributions, written
by Steven Phillips, Miro Dudik and Rob Schapire, with support from AT&T Labs-Research, Princeton
University, and the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History.

MaxEnt Interface
To run MaxEnt, simply click the file maxent.bat.

1 - Samples panel - a list species presence location data.


2 - Environmental layers panel - a list of ESRI ASCII raster layers that will be used for the
modelling.
3 - Advance tools - the more advance tools, output directory and other settings.

In order to perform a model, we need a sample CSV data (the Gallirallus_calayanensis.csv in your
samples directory); the environmental layers (in your layers directory) and; and output directory to save
all the model results.

Loading your sample data


1. To load the samples data, click the Browse button in the Samples panel.
2. A new window will appear, open your samples directory and select the
Gallirallus_calayanensis.csv. Click Open.

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Loading the environmental variables


1. To load the raster data, click the Browse button in the Environmental layers panel.
2. A new window will appear, select your layers directory and Open.

The main MaxEnt window will display the number environmental layers available in the directory.

Define the output directory


1. To select the output directory, click the Browse button in the Output directory section. Select the
geodata directory and click Open.

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Running the model


1. Click Run.

Depending on the extent and number of environmental layers, running model may take some time.
Once finished, you can now close the MaxEnt application.

Interpreting the results


The run produces multiple output files, of which the most important for analyzing your model is an html
file called Gallirallus_calayanensis.html. Open the Gallirallus_calayanensis.html in your web
browser.

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