of relevant systematically

collected data that had been geo-referenced to the particular

sampling sites where our species’ distribution

records were collected. Future studies could certainly

include many more variables as the computational cost

that would be imposed is minor. Indeed, we suggest

that the computational complexity of the SVM approach

is one of its primary features. This aspect could be

exploited in many ways that await development.

Some obvious possibilities are that different

obtained from subsets of the data corresponding to

classes of environmental variables (biotic vs. abiotic,

chemical vs. physical, etc.) could be compared