Potential distribution ranges of species can be predicted from environmental surrogates or climatic factors. To date, biologists have been relying on a single major set of global environmental data to delimitate species ranges and project them through space and time. This dataset, also known as the WorldClim database, relies on elevation, temperature, and precipitation data collected from weather stations distributed across the world. Although the WorldClim database has been successfully applied to a suite of ecological and evolutionary research questions, its performance can still be suboptimal.