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Jamie M. Kass, Bruno Vilela, Matthew Aiello-Lammens, Robert
Muscarella, and Robert P. Anderson
Wallace: A flexible platform for reproducible
modeling of species niches and distributions
built for community expansion
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Wallace
What is Wallace? And Why?
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Applied biodiversity informatics
Anderson (2012)
Agenda: Making data and modeling ready to address
critical environmental issues of the 21st century
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1. High-quality data, ready to be accessed when the
particular problem presents itself
2. Software that achieves an appropriate balance
between automation and supervision
3. Scientists capable of building, applying, and
appraising high-quality models
Agenda: applied biodiversity informatics
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1. High-quality data, ready to be accessed when the
particular problem presents itself
2. Software that achieves an appropriate balance
between automation and supervision
3. Scientists capable of building, applying, and
appraising high-quality models
Agenda: applied biodiversity informatics
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1. High-quality data, ready to be accessed when the
particular problem presents itself
2. Software that achieves an appropriate balance
between automation and supervision
3. Scientists capable of building, applying, and
appraising high-quality models
Agenda: applied biodiversity informatics
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1. High-quality data, ready to be accessed when the
particular problem presents itself
Continued large-scale, across-the-board databasing
and georeferencing initiatives
High priority taxonomic projects realized in parallel
Agenda: applied biodiversity informatics
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2. Software that achieves an appropriate balance
between automation and supervision
• automates repetitive aspects
• forces user to make critical biological and
conceptual decisions
• general with respect to the algorithm/s used
Agenda: applied biodiversity informatics
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2. Software that achieves an appropriate balance
between automation and supervision
• automates repetitive aspects
• forces user to make critical biological and
conceptual decisions
• general with respect to the algorithm/s used
“umbrella tools that can be employed with any
particular modeling algorithm”
Agenda: applied biodiversity informatics
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3. Scientists capable of building, applying, and
appraising high-quality models
• clear literature
• workshops
• graduate courses
Agenda: applied biodiversity informatics
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Correlative modeling of species
niches and distributions
Occurrence
records
Environmental
data
Algorithm Model of
niche
Suitable areas
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Anderson (2015)
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Robert Anderson, Robert Boria, Peter Galante, Jamie Kass,
Aleksandar Radosavljevic, Mariano Soley-Guardia, Maria Uriarte, Bruno Vilela
Robert Muscarella Matthew Aiello-Lammens
Recent R packages: spThin and ENMeval
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Nielsen
Nielsen
UCONN
CUNY
Aarhus
UFG
Alcalá
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Creativity,
“discussion”
and fun
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Wallace
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Point-and-click (GUI) application that includes most
steps of a niche/distribution modeling workflow
• Harnesses R packages and gives credit to their
authors
What is Wallace beta 0.6?
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Wallace’s code is free
and OPEN
(& users can download
data from online
databases.)
Qualities of Wallace
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Wallace provides
GUIDANCE
that addresses
conceptual and
methodological
issues.
Qualities of Wallace
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Wallace is FLEXIBLE
by providing
multiple options,
and allowing user
inputs and
downloads for most
components.
Qualities of Wallace
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Wallace features
INTERACTIVE
maps, tables, and
graphs to explore
data and model
predictions.
Qualities of Wallace
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Wallace is
REPRODUCIBLE
by providing
executable code for
documenting and
rerunning the
analysis.
Qualities of Wallace
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Wallace is EXPANDABLE!
by featuring different
methodological options
(modules) that
researchers can
contribute to advance
functionality.
Qualities of Wallace
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Wallace is expandable
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Wallace is expandable
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Wallace is expandable
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Wallace is expandable
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Future directions
1. First full release soon
(software note in review)
2. Ongoing NSF funding to
respond to immediate user
needs (Google group and
Wallace e-mail)
3. Seeking more funding,
with Cory Merow (to work
with external partners to
add new modules)
NSF DBI-1650241
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THANK YOU
… please help us make Wallace better … and grow
http://www.andersonlab.ccny.cuny.edu
DEB-1119915 and DBI-1650241
http://wallaceecomod.github.io