GLOSSA documentation guide

Welcome to the GLOSSA documentation! Here, you’ll find everything you need to understand, use, and get the most out of GLOSSA for species distribution modeling. Whether you’re new to modeling or already experienced, we’ve got guides, examples, and detailed explanations to help you.

If you’d like to contribute, check out our contribution guidelines. For questions, feel free to reach out via the contact form on the iMARES website.

New to GLOSSA?

Start with our how-to guides, which provide simple, step-by-step instructions for common tasks:

• What is GLOSSA?
• Installing and setting up GLOSSA
• Preparing your data
• Running a new analysis
• Explore the results
• Exporting results

Tutorials and examples

Explore real-world examples that guide you through complete analyses, from start to finish. You’ll also find specific tutorials on how to source and prepare your data for modeling:

• Download and prepare occurrence data
• Download and prepare environmental data
• Global species distribution model
• Using a polygon to define the study area
• Running GLOSSA on a regional scale

Explanations and reference docs

Want to know what’s happening behind the scenes? Here’s where you can dive deeper into the concepts, like how GLOSSA’s BART model works, how we generate pseudo-absences or detailed technical information about data formats and specific settings:

• How does GLOSSA work?
• What is Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART)?
• Generating pseudo-absences for presence-only data

Common issues and troubleshooting

Find solutions to common issues, such as installation problems, data formatting errors, and model performance concerns:

• Troubleshooting
• FAQs

Contributing to GLOSSA

Interested in contributing to GLOSSA? Learn how to get involved and what kinds of contributions we’re looking for:

• Contribution guidelines

GLOSSA resources

Here are some useful links to access GLOSSA resources:

• CRAN repository
• GitHub repository
• iMARES website
• Issues and feature requests