Daniele Da Re is a Postdoctoral Researcher, at the University of Trento, Italy. During the 2023 MOOD Summer School, he gave a general overview on species distribution modeling from both the conceptual and technical aspects. On the conceptual aspect, he focused on the historical development of the environmental niche concept and on the different but complementary environmental niche concepts. On the technical aspect, he focused on both correlative and mechanistic species distribution models approaches and best practices for performing SDMs exercises.