Criteria Rating
5 4 3 2 1
Environmental envelope Envelope ok; no further edits recommended Envelope ok; no further edits recommended Envelope ok/species known to have large interannual changes in habitat usage are only inadequately captured by single annnual envelope; Envelope ok but may still be improved adjusting parameters (>2); or available environmental parameters are unable to adequately describe species occurrence Computer-generated (default) map
Area restrictions Bounding box complete and with good fit to known distribtution Bounding box complete and with good fit to known distribtution Uses bounding box; no further improvements of bounding box possible but areas of false predicted presence remain Uses bounding box but may need further improvements; defined by FAO areas that encompass entire known range Computer-generated (default) map
Point data/good cells Adequately large sample size; samples cover representative portion of species range;no apparent bias introduced;no good cells needed to be added/removed Adequately large sample size; samples cover representative portion of species range;biases were corrected by adding or removing good cells Medium sampe size and coverage of known species range but strong effort biases due to heterogenous sampling effort; possible point data bias/output can only be improved with addition/deletion of a large number good cells Low sample size, non-representative coverage of species range by sampling Computer-generated (default) map
Predicted range of occurrence In very good agreement with known range/significant statistical relationship between predictions and independent survey data In good agreement with known range Approximates known range but possibly with some areas of false predicted presence or absence Approximates known range but includes large areas of false predicted presence or absence Computer-generated (default) map
Predicted relative likelihood of occurrence In very good agreement with known relative occurrences/significant statistical relationship between predictions and independent survey data In good agreement with known relative occurrences Good correspondence with overall range but large discrepancies between predictions and known concentrations of high species occurrence Good correspondence with overall range but large discrepancies between predictions and known concentrations of high species occurrence Computer-generated (default) map
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