To construct Biodiversity richness maps from Environmental Niche Models (ENMs) of thousands of species is time consuming. A separate species occurrence data pre-processing phase enables the experimenter to control test AUC score variance due to species dataset size. Besides, removing duplicate occurrences and points with missing environmental data, we discuss the need for coordinate precision, ...

The thesis is based on the following articles, which are referred to in the text by their roman numerals. In addition, unpublished data are presented. Root or crown: a developmental choice orchestrated by the differential regulation of the epithelial stem cell niche.

1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 37996 Knoxville, Tennessee 2 BIOSS, King’s Buildings, EH93JZ Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (email: [email protected]) 3 Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University, Jilská 1, 110 00-CZ Praha 1, Czech Republic (e-mail: [email protected]) 4 Department of Ecology. Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, 128 44-CZ...