{"capabilities":"This app allows users to explore and assess the environmental niches occupied by vascular plants and the more common bryophytes and lichens found in Britain. Niche models describe where a species occurs in relation to different gradients, such as moisture and temperature. The app allows  users to visualise the 'MultiMOVE' niche models, derived from occurrence data for more than 1300 species.","description":"The purpose of this app is to explore the environmental \"niche\" of a plant species.","fundingSources":"Find your niche! was partly funded by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland Research Fund.","id":"1c906f9c-73a6-4af9-862d-c966bb416889","infrastructureCategory":{"value":"data","description":"Environmental data and information","infrastructureClass":"Digital infrastructures","uri":"http://vocabs.ceh.ac.uk/ri/data"},"lifecycle":"The app is based on the multiMOVE model framework (R package) that contains fitted niche models for almost 1500 plant species in Great Britain. The multiMOVE model (Version 1) was published in Arpil 2013 and was superseded by Version 2.0.1 in May 2015.","metadataDate":"2025-04-09T09:24:17","onlineResources":[{"url":"https://shiny-apps.ceh.ac.uk/find_your_niche/","function":"website","type":"OTHER"}],"owners":[{"displayName":"Simon Smart","organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","organisationIdentifier":"https://ror.org/00pggkr55","role":"owner","email":"enquiries@ceh.ac.uk","address":{"city":"Lancaster"},"fullName":"Simon Smart"}],"partners":"The tool is UKCEH based, development was assisted by: Toshie Mizunuma, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukaba, Japan; Cristina Herrero-Jauregui, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Robert Marrs, University of Liverpool; Adam Butler, JCMB, Edinburgh.","resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1c906f9c-73a6-4af9-862d-c966bb416889"}],"scienceArea":"Soils and Land Use","title":"Find your niche: Plant species model assessment","type":"infrastructureRecord","uniqueness":"This app allows users to explore and assess the environmental niches occupied by vascular plants and the more common bryophytes and lichensfound in Britain. Niche models describe where a  species occurs in relation to different gradients, such as moisture and temperature. The app allows  users to visualise the ‘MultiMOVE’ niche models, derived from occurrence data for more than 1300 species.","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1c906f9c-73a6-4af9-862d-c966bb416889","users":["The app was created to allow botanists to check whether the niches reflect their experience of the species, and to add assessments. Anyone with an interest in the environmental requirements and ranges of GB species may find it useful and interesting to explore  these niche models"]}