Species Distribution Model Environmental Variable Importance Scores

Jaewon Seol published a dataset on figshare in June 2026 detailing the relative importance of environmental variables in Species Distribution Models (SDMs). The data consists of permutation-based importance scores ranging from 0 to 1, with bold values highlighting the most influential variable for each species. The dataset is stored in an XLS file and is 9.5 KB in size.

Use Cases

• Ranking environmental predictors for SDMs based on permutation importance scores
• Identifying the most influential variable for a given species based on bolded values
• Comparing variable importance across multiple species models

Strengths

• Permutation importance scores are provided on a standardized 0–1 scale
• The most influential variable for each species is explicitly indicated

Limitations

• The dataset is very small (9.5 KB), indicating limited scope
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download

Provenance

Source

figshare

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 17:40:24