Modeling ecological niches of species as a means to predict geographic distributions is a growing field that has been applied to numerous challenges of importance in ecology, systematics, and human well-being. The increasing availability and variety of such predictive algorithms…

Sampling-based motion approaches, like Probabilistic Roadmap Methods or those based on Rapidly-exploring Random Trees are giving good results in robot motion planning problems with many degrees of freedom. Following these approaches, several strategies have been proposed for biasing the sampling…