- Tytuł:
- Learning the syntax of plant assemblages
- Autorzy:
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Garbolino, Emmanuel
Campos, Juan Antonio
Bonnet, Pierre
Čarni, Andraž
Servajean, Maximilien
De Sanctis, Michele
Uogintas, Domas
Jandt, Ute
Argagnon, Olivier
Moeslund, Jesper Erenskjold
Chytrý, Milan
Dziuba, Tetiana
Sibik, Jozef
Joly, Alexis
Jansen, Florian
Stančić, Zvjezdana
Ćušterevska, Renata
Thuiller, Wilfried
Bruelheide, Helge
Aćić, Svetlana
Biurrun, Idoia
Pielech, Remigiusz
Dengler, Jürgen
Leblanc, César
Bonari, Gianmaria
Pérez-Haase, Aaron
Wohlgemuth, Thomas
Lenoir, Jonathan - Opis:
- To address the urgent biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to understand the nature of plant assemblages. The distribution of plant species is shaped not only by their broad environmental requirements but also by micro-environmental conditions, dispersal limitations, and direct and indirect species interactions. While predicting species composition and habitat type is essential for conservation and restoration purposes, it remains challenging. In this study, we propose an approach inspired by advances in large language models to learn the ‘syntax’ of abundance-ordered plant species sequences in communities. Our method, which captures latent associations between species across diverse ecosystems, can be fine-tuned for diverse tasks. In particular, we show that our methodology is able to outperform other approaches to (1) predict species that might occur in an assemblage given the other listed species, despite being originally missing in the species list (16.53% higher accuracy in retrieving a plant species removed from an assemblage than co-occurrence matrices and 6.56% higher than neural networks), and (2) classify habitat types from species assemblages (5.54% higher accuracy in assigning a habitat type to an assemblage than expert system classifiers and 1.14% higher than tabular deep learning). The proposed application has a vocabulary that covers over 10,000 plant species from Europe and adjacent countries and provides a powerful methodology for improving biodiversity mapping, restoration and conservation biology. As ecologists begin to explore the use of artificial intelligence, such approaches open opportunities for rethinking how we model, monitor and understand nature.
- Dostawca treści:
- Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
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