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