Data for: The meta-analysis of the effects of spatial sampling bias correction on presence only species distribution models

This dataset contains information extracted from 70 studies identified through a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature (Web of Science and SCOPUS databases both searched on the 13/02/2023) to evaluate the effect of spatial sampling bias correction methods in presence-only species distribution models., Web of Science and SCOPUS databases were searched on the 13/02/2023 using the following search string:
ALL=((\"species distribution*\" OR SDM OR \"environmental niche\" OR ENM OR \"resource selection\" OR \"habitat selection\" OR suitability OR occurrence) AND (\"presence-only\" OR “presence data” OR \"presence-background\" OR “pseudo absence” OR opportunistic OR “citizen science” OR preferential OR maxent OR biomod))
After removing duplicates, the search returned 8564 unique studies, and these were further filtered to remove studies that fell outside of the review subject area based on the title and abstract and then the remaining studies were filtered by content based on the criteria that they involved the building of SDMs using PO data (i.e. no absence information, including inferred absences from complete species lists) and that the study included a direct comparison between SDMs that attempted to correct models for SSB and models without this correction. To avoid ambiguity, studies were requir..., The file can be opened with any software capable of reading a .csv file., ---

title: Data for the meta-analysis of the effects of spatial sampling bias correction on presence-only species distribution models.
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This dataset contains information extracted from 220 studies identified through a systematic review of the peer-reviewed literature (Web of Science and SCOPUS databases both searched on the 13/02/2023) to evaluate the usage and effect of spatial sampling bias correction methods in presence-only species distribution models.

## Description of the Data and file structure

The dataset contains the following columns:

* study_id = Unique number for identifying each study.
* bibtexkey = Author/year key.
* journal = Name of journal publishing the study.
* title = Title of article.
* volume = Volume number of published study.
* year = Year of publication for study.
* doi = doi of study.
* focal_kingdom = Kingdom of focal species (all named, separated by '|').
* f...