Brief flyer about some Modestr v5.0 features.

2. ModestR is a software tool, made up of four interrelated applications: MapMaker, DataManager,
MRMapping and MRFinder. It is aimed to provide academic community (particularly people involved in
ecology and biodiversity management) with a powerful but easy-to-use tool for working with species
distribution maps and taxonomic data. ModestR has been designed to be easy and intuitive to use, but
providing powerful features. Most of the functions, even complex ones, are very easy to use. It allows
you to equally work with range maps (areas), sample maps (occurrence records) or even a mix of both,
importing data from GBIF, CSV files, shapefiles, etc.
ModestR works basing on species habitats. You can select allowed habitats for each species. Then, for
example, ModestR can automatically filter occurrence records, or calculate extent of occurrence only
taking into account species allowed habitats. With ModestR you can create species distribution
databases structured on a taxonomic hierarchy, and work with any taxonomic group as a whole, quite as
easily as with a single species.
ModestR is designed to perform complex or time consuming tasks on any group of species in a batch
way. For example, you can launch a task to download data from GBIF for any taxonomic group (a class,
an order…), or apply a convex hull transformation in an entire database, in a single operation. This way,
working with thousands of species distribution maps is made quite easy.
You can also perform several analyses and summarized data for any taxonomic group: AOO, EOO,
richness, gradients, metrics, etc.
ModestR can also integrate environmental variables in an easy way, to use them in data cleaning, niche
estimation, or to generate reports that merge species distribution data and environmental data. You
can easily search for species in any region of the world and generate reports, just by selecting the
wanted region in the map.
ModestR allows exchanging data in several formats (ASC, shapefile, CSV, KML…). So you can easily
import existing distribution data to ModestR, or export ModestR outputs to post-process them in R,
for example.
ModestR is continuously improving with new features, such as powerful mapping features.

3. Convex hull Alpha shape Kernel density
Rule-based/auto data cleaning & habitat filtering
Add environmental data Download data from GBIF Import shapefiles, KML, or CSV’s and edit maps
Freshwater habitats

4. Create taxonomic databases of distribution maps Download data from GBIF for any taxonomic rank
Export metrics and other analyses for any rank
Apply batch data cleaning to a group of maps
Estimate Extent of Occurrence for any group of maps
Integrate environmental data in database
Export presence and environmental data
Edit species maps with MapMaker
Convex hull
Alpha shape
Kernel density

5. Search for species in any freely selected regions Or use predefined selections to search in Search filtering by habitats, and grouping by region
See/export a species richness map by regions Filter search results by taxonomy or rarity
Export found species data and metricsGet species found by regionClip and export environmental data for any selection

6. Select any arbitrary groups of species Create multiple distributions occurrence maps Export maps as images
Group species by any rank (orders, families…) Easily manage data series (merge, delete, rename..)
Create multiple distributions range mapsCalculate spatial overlaps (total and by habitat)Add environmental data, visual templates, etc.