Climate change is projected to alte

Climate change is projected to alter species’ natural distribution and drive biodiversity loss in forest ecosystems (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005). To mitigate the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems, we can effectively target conservation strategies by modeling species distributions to identify areas where sensitive species exist or likely exist. To effectively model species distributions, detailed and reliable information about the spatial distribution of speciesis needed. However, occurrence data tend to be very scarce for the vast majority of species, especially in the cases of rare species where such information is either non-existent or very poor (Newbold, 2010; Marcer et al., 2013).