Spatial autocorrelation in species distribution models: autologistic model with covariates vs. BioMod

Several methods has been proposed to modeling species distributions, also a few models consider explicitly spatial autocorrelation or spatial neighborhood. We compare a model based on autologistic model with covariates with standard methods frequently used in species distribution models. Accuracy assessment is important in species distribution models. The value of a model depends on the accuracy of its outputs. We evaluated the accuracy in terms of ROC analysis and the F-measure proposed by Li and Gou 2013 for virtual species and for real species data.