SDM Fieldwork Prep Priorities Wheel
How to use: Spin to pick the first SDM prep task to document.
All 5 fieldwork focus areas
GBIF occurrence record cleaningcoordinate deduplication and spatial thinningWorldClim BIO1/BIO12 predictor screeningMaxEnt response-curve interpretationpresence-only sampling bias notes
About the SDM Fieldwork Prep Priorities Wheel
Use this wheel when an ecology or conservation workflow has several reasonable next steps and the team needs a neutral way to choose a starting point. It is tailored to species distribution modeling prep work, including occurrence data cleaning, coordinate quality checks, environmental predictor selection, and MaxEnt interpretation. It can help a field biology team or biodiversity data analyst break a planning deadlock without pretending that the random choice is a scientific conclusion. After spinning, the selected focus area should be documented with assumptions, data limitations, and the next validation step before any conservation recommendation is made.