Ricardo Scachetti-Pereira

TL;DR: This work compared 16 modelling methods over 226 species from 6 regions of the world, creating the most comprehensive set of model comparisons to date and found that presence-only data were effective for modelling species' distributions for many species and regions.

TL;DR: The technique of ecological niche modeling using the genetic algorithm for rule-set prediction (GARP) to predict the potential distributions of these two species in Japan, finding that the predictions were statistically significant for both species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed predictive models of ecological and spatial distributions of capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) using ecological niche modeling, and found that most occurrences of the animals were in flat areas with water bodies surrounded by sugarcane and pasture.

TL;DR: The potential of Homalodisca coagulata to invade South America is a question of economic importance, given its potential impact as a disease vector for several crops as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This work investigated the potential geographic range of the invasive paleotropical weed, smooth crotalaria, in protected natural areas across Brazil and found it appears more likely to occur in open and highly fragmented areas than in extensive closed forests.