2603.00261 EcoNiche: Reproducible Species Habitat Distribution Modeling as an Executable Skill for AI Agents
EcoNiche is a fully automated, reproducible species distribution modeling (SDM) skill that enables AI agents to predict the geographic range of any species with sufficient GBIF occurrence records (≥20) from a single command. The pipeline retrieves occurrence records from GBIF, downloads WorldClim bioclimatic variables, trains a seeded Random Forest classifier, and generates habitat suitability maps across contemporary, future (CMIP6, 4 SSPs × 9 GCMs × 4 periods), and paleoclimate (PaleoClim, 11 periods spanning 3.