{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/infomap-bioregions-interactive-mapping-of","title":"Infomap Bioregions: Interactive mapping of biogeographical regions from species distributions","arxiv_id":"1512.00892","date":"2016-11-30","proceeding":null,"authors":[],"abstract":"Biogeographical regions (bioregions) reveal how different sets of species are\nspatially grouped and therefore are important units for conservation,\nhistorical biogeography, ecology and evolution. Several methods have been\ndeveloped to identify bioregions based on species distribution data rather than\nexpert opinion. One approach successfully applies network theory to simplify\nand highlight the underlying structure in species distributions. However, this\nmethod lacks tools for simple and efficient analysis. Here we present Infomap\nBioregions, an interactive web application that inputs species distribution\ndata and generates bioregion maps. Species distributions may be provided as\ngeoreferenced point occurrences or range maps, and can be of local, regional or\nglobal scale. The application uses a novel adaptive resolution method to make\nbest use of often incomplete species distribution data. The results can be\ndownloaded as vector graphics, shapefiles or in table format. We validate the\ntool by processing large datasets of publicly available species distribution\ndata of the world's amphibians using species ranges, and mammals using point\noccurrences. We then calculate the fit between the inferred bioregions and WWF\necoregions. As examples of applications, researchers can reconstruct ancestral\nranges in historical biogeography or identify indicator species for targeted\nconservation.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00892v3","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.00892v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"infomap-bioregions-interactive-mapping-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/mapequation/bioregions","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"vector-graphics","task_name":"Vector Graphics"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}