Pinto, CeciliaThorburn, James A.Neat, FrancisWright, Peter J.Wright, SerenaScott, Beth E.Cornulier, ThomasTravis, Justin M. J.2017-06-012017-06-012016-06Pinto, C, Thorburn, J A, Neat, F, Wright, P J, Wright, S, Scott, B E, Cornulier, T & Travis, J M J 2016, 'Using individual tracking data to validate the predictions of species distribution models', Diversity and Distributions, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 682-693. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.124371366-9516ORCID: /0000-0001-5412-3952/work/162251658http://hdl.handle.net/2164/8740The authors would like to thank the College of Life Sciences of Aberdeen University and Marine Scotland Science which funded CP's PhD project. Skate tagging experiments were undertaken as part of Scottish Government project SP004. We thank Ian Burrett for help in catching the fish and the other fishermen and anglers who returned tags. We thank José Manuel Gonzalez-Irusta for extracting and making available the environmental layers used as environmental covariates in the environmental suitability modelling procedure. We also thank Jason Matthiopoulos for insightful suggestions on habitat utilization metrics as well as Stephen C.F. Palmer, and three anonymous reviewers for useful suggestions to improve the clarity and quality of the manuscript.121286150104811272199211918765179engdata integrationDipturus cf. intermediageneralized additive modelindividual movmentmodel validationspecies distribution modeltidal geolocation modelQH301 BiologyQH301Journal article10.1111/ddi.12437