Like an infant, or possibly a drunken hobo...
...the ENMTools website is slowly lurching its way onto its feet. The site is intended primarily as a distribution point for new builds of the ENMTools software. This software was designed to make the...
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As it stands, ENMTools basically is a testing version. We're about to crank out a version that only has the bits in that we've worked with extensively, and that already have some associated published...
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We're starting to work on the new Tkx version!
Hooray! In case you don't know why you should be excited about this, I'll give you a couple of reasons. First, it's going to make it so that it works with the default install of ActivePerl on Windows,...
View ArticleTkx version ready for testing!
I'm excited to announce that there's already a test version of the new Tkx ENMTools. And here's the big news - IT WORKS ON OSX! Porting from Tk to Tkx was a bit of a hassle, but once that was done it...
View ArticleOSX users of the Tkx version - possible bug
Rich gave the Tkx version a spin yesterday, and had a bit of an odd bug come up that I've never seen before. It seems that the program wouldn't let him set the path to maxent.jar, no matter what he...
View ArticleNew executables of ENMTools for Windows and OSX! Hooray!
Thanks to Activestate's PerlApp (which is awesome), we now have executable versions of the testing build of ENMTools. You can download the new Mac OS X executable here, or the Windows executable here....
View ArticleNew Version of Maxent Available
Steven Phillips just posted a new version of Maxent (v. 3.3.0). I've already used this new version successfully with ENMTools, so hopefully there won't be any unforeseen compatability issues. One of...
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ENMTools Used in Bigfoot Study
Who would have guessed that the first published study using the test for niche identity implemented in ENMTools would be about bigfoot? The study in question is a guest editorial in the Journal of...
View ArticleNew version of ENMTools up
There's a new version of the software up now that improves compatibility with Maxent. There's a new setting in the "ENMTools options for setting the Maxent version (3.2 and below versus 3.3 and...
View ArticleNew manual!
We've finally bashed together a first take on the full manual for ENMTools. You can find it here, or in the zip file with the new version of ENMTools. The new manual outlines for the first time the...
View ArticleHow to run ENMTools tests on a cluster, or using a modeling method other than...
ENMTools tests can take a long time to run, due to the number of Maxent runs necessary to construct a distribution of expected overlaps. For that reason, people occasionally ask whether there's a way...
View ArticleENMTools application note now available
The application note for ENMTools is now available in the Early View section of Ecography's website. Due to the limits of space, the note really only discusses the measurement of overlap and the...
View ArticleProblems with ENMTools and Maxent 3.3.2
Rich and I just hit a problem, but luckily it's one with an easy solution.As discussed on the Maxent discussion group, Maxent version 3.3.2 does not necessarily like underscores too much. Since...
View ArticleSorting bug with ribbon range-breaking analysis
It has just now come to my attention that ENMTools has a bug involving the sorting of I and D values for the ribbon range-breaking analysis. This bug can cause incorrect values to be inserted into the...
View ArticleNew version of ENMTools up
I've tracked down the sorting bug that Rich and I found last night, and there's now a new version of ENMTools that fixes the issue. It does appear that it only affected the ribbon analysis, and only...
View ArticleNew test version of ENMTools with model selection
There's a new test version of ENMTools up here. In addition to fixing a few minor annoyances from previous versions, there's a new function that allows criterion-based model selection using AICc and...
View ArticleModel selection paper now online
The paper I've been working on with Stephanie Seifert on model selection in Maxent is now available as a preprint from Ecological Applications. The paper demonstrates that AIC and BIC can be useful in...
View ArticleError in I metric (but don't panic!)
Thanks to a manuscript by Dennis Rödder and Jan Engler that is currently in revision for Global Ecology and Biogeography (entitled “Quantitative metrics of overlaps in Grinnellian niches: advances and...
View ArticleNew version of ENMTools up
We've got a new version of ENMTools. This update fixes a couple of issues and adds one handy little tool. The manual is not completely updated yet, but the program is...
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New Functions in ENMTools to Identify Environmental Barriers to Dispersal
We're pleased to announce publication of a paper that uses new functions in ENMTools to identify environmental barriers to dispersal. These new features of ENMTools permit identification of two types...
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