AI-based discovery of habitats from museum collections.

Journal: Trends in ecology & evolution
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Abstract

Museum collection records are a source of historic data for species occurrence, but little attention is paid to the associated descriptions of habitat at the sample locations. We propose that artificial intelligence methods have potential to use these descriptions for reconstructing past habitat, to address ecological and evolutionary questions.

Authors

  • Christopher B Jones
    School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Electronic address: jonescb2@cardiff.ac.uk.
  • Kristin Stock
    Massey Geoinformatics Collaboratory, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
  • Sarah E Perkins
    School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.