SPECIES

SPECIES is an interactive tool for analyzing ecological niches and the potential distribution of species. Furthermore, it can be used to infer networks between species that can highlight potential interaction between species.

SPECIES harbors information of 2 to 3 billion biological organisms distributed worldwide. This information represents a large source to understand biodiversity and its geographical distribution.

Thanks to SPECIES it is possible to analyze this information from an integrative perspective. The platform is developed in a collaboration between the Center of Complexity Sciences of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (C3-UNAM) and the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO); and uses data mining of geographical information to analyze the registry of collections contained in the National System of Information about Biodiversity (SNIB), including a set of climatic and topographic data.

SPECIES includes two modules:

Ecologlal niche, allows characterizing areas in which a group of organisms occur, and estimate their potential distribution.Visit Ecological Niche

Ecological community, allows building inferential complex networks between species that co-occurVisit Inferential Networks