Table 1.

Comparison of nine niche models for predicting current P. heterophylla distribution in China.

Model	Area under the curve	True skill statistic
Maximum Entropy	0.969 ± 0.004	0.845 ± 0.021
Random Forest	0.956 ± 0.020	0.786 ± 0.028
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines	0.950 ± 0.007	0.774 ± 0.027
Surface Range Envelope	0.836 ± 0.022	0.672 ± 0.045
Generalized Linear Model	0.914 ± 0.004	0.757 ± 0.021
Flexible Discriminant Analysis	0.934 ± 0.018	0.747 ± 0.019
Generalized Additive Model	0.907 ± 0.022	0.764 ± 0.036
Artificial Neural Networks	0.945 ± 0.022	0.808 ± 0.026
Classification Tree Analysis	0.916 ± 0.025	0.734 ± 0.030

Values are mean ± SD of 10 runs.