Platform guides and explainers

How to login and request an account
Go to the Biosecurity Commons website. In the top right corner click on 'Login/Sign up'.    You will be redirected to the Biosecurity Comm...
Tue, 19 Sep, 2023 at 12:14 PM
Overview of the Biosecurity Commons platform
On the Biosecurity Commons platform you have access to high performance computation, modelling tools and free cloud storage. You can explore growing volumes...
Wed, 5 Apr, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Run a Climate Change Experiment
With Biosecurity Commons, you can predict the potential future distribution of a species under a variety of possible future climate scenarios. The Climate...
Tue, 4 Apr, 2023 at 3:24 PM
Introduction to Species Distribution Models
What is species distribution modelling? Species distribution modelling refers to the process of using computer algorithms to predict the distribution of sp...
Thu, 13 Apr, 2023 at 2:50 PM
Run an Ensemble Analysis Experiment
To reduce the uncertainty of using the single-algorithm, or single-climate-model approach to investigating climate change impacts, you can run an ensemble e...
Tue, 4 Apr, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Overview of SDM methods
The Biosecurity Commons currently provides 19 different algorithms across 4 different categories to run your species distribution model: Profile models ...
Fri, 25 Aug, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Convex Hull
Introduction  A Convex Hull is a geographical model that uses the location of known occurrences to generate a spatial convex hull around these occurr...
Tue, 4 Apr, 2023 at 5:05 PM
How to run a Species Distribution Model on Biosecurity Commons
The Species Distribution Model Experiment (SDM) lets you investigate the potential distribution of a species under current climatic and environmental condit...
Mon, 8 Apr, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Absence data
Selection of absence, pseudo-absence, or background data can have profound impacts on your results. For instance, Maxent requires background data, which is...
Thu, 13 Apr, 2023 at 4:17 PM