Species Distribution Modeling for Machine Learning Practitioners: A Review
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Conservation science depends on an accurate understanding of what’s happening in a given ecosystem. How many species live there? What is the makeup of the population? How is that changing over time? Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) seeks to predict the spatial (and sometimes temporal) patterns of species occurrence, i.e. where a species is likely to be found. The last few years have seen a surge of interest in applying powerful machine learning tools to challenging problems in ecology [2, 5, 8]. Despite its considerable importance, SDM has received relatively little attention from the computer science community. Our goal in this work is to provide computer scientists with the necessary background to read the SDM literature and develop ecologically useful ML-based SDM algorithms. In particular, we introduce key SDM concepts and terminology, review standard models, discuss data availability, and highlight technical challenges and pitfalls.
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Open challenges in species distribution modeling include increasing the scale of joint models geospatially, temporally, and taxonomically; building methods that can leverage multiple data types despite bias from non-uniform sampling strategies; incorporating ecological knowledge such as species dispersal and community composition; and expanding methods for evaluation.
“Open challenges include increasing the scale of joint models geospatially, temporally, and taxonomically, building methods that can leverage multiple data types despite bias from non-uniform sampling strategies, incorporating ecological knowledge such as species dispersal and community composition, and expanding methods for the evaluation of these models.”
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- Authors
- Beery, S., Cole, E., Parker, J., Perona, P., & Winner, K.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Yale University (US)
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- ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
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- ACM
- Published
- 2021-06-28
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- 329-348
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- 100
- References
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- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1745301)
- California Institute of Technology
- Resnick Sustainability Institute for Science, Energy and Sustainability, California Institute of Technology
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecological Modeling › Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Keywords
- species distribution modeling, species occurrence prediction, conservation science
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