Climate-driven habitat suitability modelling of brown pine (Podocarpus neriifolius) in Bangladesh using MaxEnt model

Podocarpus neriifolius D. Don, a conifer species from the Podocarpaceae family confined to very specific microhabitats in tropical hill forests of Bangladesh, is highly susceptible to habitat loss under global climate change. This study employed an optimized maximum entropy model for species distribution modeling to assess the current and future habitat suitability of P. neriifolius under three Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) scenarios: SSP126, SSP245, and SSP585 for the 2050s and 2070s. Usin