Predicted Biodiversity
Cumulative Predicted Habitat Suitability for Biodiversity Groups
When all species in a group have been modeled, we combine all the individual models for the species in the group to create a cumulative measure of habitat suitability for the group at a 90 x 90‐meter pixel scale. For species modeled inductively, we score categorical model output for individual species as Unsuitable = 0, Low Suitability = 0.25, Moderate Suitability = 0.75, and Optimal Suitability = 1. For species modeled deductively, we score Unsuitable = 0 and Suitable = 1. We then add those values across all species in the biodiversity group for each pixel, bin the cumulative raw values into 10 equal quantiles to facilitate comparisons across biodiversity groups, and display higher to lower quantiles as hotter to cooler colors representing higher to lower predicted cumulative habitat suitability for the biodiversity group. For non‐native species biodiversity groups, output can be interpreted as cumulative risk of a habitat being invaded by the group.
See our Map Viewer Task to explore the Biodiversity Layers:
