biomod2 : ensemble platform for Species Distribution Modeling

BIOMOD is a computer platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions, enabling the treatment of a range of methodological uncertainties in models and the examination of species-environment relationships.

BIOMOD includes the ability to model species distributions with several techniques, test models with a wide range of approaches, project species distributions into different environmental conditions (e.g. climate or land use change scenarios) and dispersal functions. It allows assessing species temporal turnover, plot species response curves, and test the strength of species interactions with predictor variables.

BIOMOD is implemented in R as biomod2 package and is a freeware, open source, package.
The package is described in the following publication :


Thuiller W. (2003). BIOMOD : Optimising predictions of species distributions and projecting potential future shifts under global change. Global Change Biology, 9, 1353-1362. PDF

Thuiller, W., Lafourcade, B., Engler, R., & Araujo, M. B. (2009). BIOMOD – A platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions. Ecography, 32, 369-373. PDF

Development has been moved to Github.
Documentation website gives information about functions, usage and examples.

  • The stable version can be found HERE and installed with the following command from CRAN : 
    install.packages("biomod2", dependencies = TRUE)
  • The development version can be installed with the following command from Github :
    devtools::install_github("biomodhub/biomod2", dependencies = TRUE)