Habitat Suitability for Soybean Aphid and Natural Enemies for Biological Control Planning

A MaxEnt model predicts habitat suitability for the soybean aphid (Aphis glycines), its host plant Glycine max, and four key natural enemies. The study identifies overlaying suitable ranges between the pest and its enemies, such as in East China, Korea, and Japan. The dataset was created by Zhengbing Wang and last updated on June 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Identifying priority regions for releasing natural enemies based on spatial niche overlaps.
• Assessing the potential distribution of the soybean aphid under the presence of its host plant.
• Comparing the influence of different bioclimatic variables on pest and predator habitat suitability.

Strengths

• Model performance metrics are provided, with AUC values ranging from 0.856 to 0.981.
• The study identifies the highest contributing bioclimatic variable for each species model.
• Results are based on an optimized MaxEnt modeling approach.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data is contained in a 13.2 KB DOCX file, indicating a very small, likely summary-scale dataset.

Provenance

Source

Zhengbing Wang via figshare

Collection Method

Generated using an optimized MaxEnt species distribution model.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 06:01:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

East Asia, including China, Korea, and Japan.