How do you learn species distribution modeling? My suggestions:
Best Practices in Species Distribution Modeling Workshop: The product of 7 in-person workshops held at international meetings and universities.
Download the files, unzip them, open the file therein entitled “00_getting_started.docx”, and get started!
The Center for Plant Conservation’s Rare Plant Academy: Free videos on how SDMs work, how they should be interpreted, and how they should be used in conservation.
Wallace 2: This is a point-and-click, user-friendly software package that runs through R that streamlines the modeling process, teaches you how to model and provides references where needed, and even writes the R code in the background so you can study and modify it.
The Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models: With Applications in R book by Guisan, Thuiller, and Zimmerman.