What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models?

Merow, Cory ; Smith, Mathew J. ; Edwards, Thomas C. ; Guisan, Antoine ; McMahon, Sean M. ; Normand, Signe ; Thuiller, Wilfried ; Wüest, Rafael O. ; Zimmermann, Niklaus E. ; Elith, Jane. (2014). What do we gain from simplicity versus complexity in species distribution models? . Ecography, 37 (12) , 1267-1281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00845