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		Data Thinning of Species Occurrences in Environmental Space // A
		suite of tools to mitigate sampling bias in species occurrence
		records by thinning data in the environmental space (E-space).
		This process can improve the accuracy and precision of species
		distribution models (SDM, also known as ecological niche
		models, ENM). The package offers a data-driven protocol to
		determine thinning parameters using kernel-density bandwidth
		selection. Two thinning methods are provided (stochastic and
		deterministic) to reduce over-sampled environmental conditions
		and down-weight outlier observations. The name 'bean' reflects
		the core principle of the method: each 'pod' (a grid cell in
		E-space) is allowed to contain only a limited number of 'beans'
		(occurrence points). See Silverman (1986,
		ISBN:978-0-412-24620-3) and Rousseeuw and Leroy (2003,
		ISBN:978-0-471-48855-2) for the underlying statistical methods.
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