Project 6: Predictor of Important Arid plants hotspots

• Create a Raster Grid for the Area of Interest (AOI) or study area.
• The raster grid is sub-divided in quared grids of desired size or analysis resolution. For instance, into 2km by 2km grid sizes.
• Labelling each 2km square grid and creating unique Cell IDs (for each grid). These constituted the references to track and concatenate the species distribution within and across grids.
• Use information on actual species distribution (point coordinates of observed presence) to cross-correlate data on inferred species distribution obtained from literature and experts' knowledge.
• Apply threshold criteria for area of inferred distribution polygons intersecting the grids of observed presence to classify grids for the target species distribution.
• Develop species distribution hotspot grids following IUCN threshold criteria i.e. Endemic species, Threatened speacies, etc.

• Link to GitHub Repository