Lmpy Term Glossary
- DWCA
A Darwin Core Archive is a packaged dataset of occurrence data.
- Data Wrangler
Data wranglers are tools for filtering and / or modifying data using specified criteria or methodology.
- Matrix
A Matrix, in the lmpy context, is an extension of numpy ndarray with metadata and headers.
- Point
A Point object is a record of a specimen occurrence including metadata about the specimen and the spatial location where it was found.
- Grid
- A Grid is a set of gridded cells representing sites to be used for matrix
creation.
- Species Distribution Model
- A species distribution model is a estimation of suitable and accessible areas for
a particular species.
- Tree
A Tree in lmpy represents a phylogenetic tree