AIMC Topic: Biodiversity

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Assessment of plant diversity index in degraded desert grassland using UAV hyperspectral multimodal data and Encoder-CNN.

Scientific reports
The biodiversity function of the desert steppe ecosystem faces many challenges under the pressure of climate change and human activities. Accurate and efficient assessment of plant diversity is critical for guiding desert steppe restoration efforts. ...

Impact of deep learning and post-processing algorithms performances on biodiversity metrics assessed on videos.

PloS one
Assessing the escalating biodiversity crisis, driven by climate change, habitat destruction, and exploitation, necessitates efficient monitoring strategies to assess species presence and abundance across diverse habitats. Video-based surveys using re...

Species richness is an important mediator of multifunctionality changes in Hobq desert shrub ecosystem.

Scientific reports
Studying the biodiversity and multifunctionality relationships of the Hobq Desert shrub ecosystem and its response to environmental factors is crucial for ecological restoration in the region. In this study, we examined variations in biodiversity and...

Machine learning training data: over 500,000 images of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) with species labels.

Scientific data
Deep learning models can accelerate the processing of image-based biodiversity data and provide educational value by giving direct feedback to citizen scientists. However, the training of such models requires large amounts of labelled data and not al...

The apportionment of dietary diversity in wildlife.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Evaluating species' roles in food webs is critical for advancing ecological theories on competition, coexistence, and biodiversity but is complicated by pronounced dietary variability within species and overlap across species. We combined dietary DNA...

Tecomella undulata under threat: The impact of climate change on the distribution of a valuable tree species using a machine learning model.

PloS one
Climate change has emerged as a significant driver of biodiversity loss, with profound implications for species distribution. This study assessed the current and future distribution of Tecomella undulata (Desert teak), an economically and medicinally...

Bio-inspired robotics in times of ecological crisis: an attempt at self-criticism.

Bioinspiration & biomimetics
This article attempts to show that current trends in bio-inspired robotics research are incompatible with the transformations needed to address the current ecological crisis. A large part of the scientific community takes refuge behind short-term cha...

Past and Present in the Ecological Connectivity of Protected Areas Through Land Cover and Graph-Based Metrics.

Environmental management
Habitat reduction is significantly threatening biodiversity, making ecological connectivity which facilitates species movement across habitat patches, essential for human impacts mitigation, promoting genetic exchange, and enabling colonization of ne...

Acoustic monitoring for tropical insect conservation.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Monitoring the species-specific sounds produced by insects could provide us with a rapid, reliable, non-invasive measure of tropical ecosystem health and biodiversity. Although acoustic biodiversity monitoring has made rapid progress over the past de...

Harmful Algae Forecasting through an Ocean Data Justice Lens.

Environmental science & technology
Forecasting systems for harmful algal blooms (HABs) are becoming more common, as HAB monitoring is increasingly networked and aggregated at national and global scales. Ocean forecasting programs in other fields have had unintended consequences and ou...