Generation of Virtual Species Distributions R package virtualspecies version 1.6.1 Provides a framework for generating virtual species distributions, a procedure increasingly used in ecology to improve species distribution models. This package integrates the existing methodological approaches with the objective of generating virtual species distributions with increased ecological realism. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5), terra Imports: ade4, graphics, grDevices, rnaturalearth, raster, stats, utils, viridis Boris Leroy <leroy.boris@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Boris Leroy [cre, aut], Christine N. Meynard [ctb], Celine Bellard [ctb], Franck Courchamp [ctb], Robin Delsol [ctb], Willson Gaul [ctb] GPL (>= 2.0) 2025-10-13 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=virtualspecies doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.virtualspecies