AIMC Topic: Biodiversity

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Spatio-temporal changes of small protist and free-living bacterial communities in a temperate dimictic lake: insights from metabarcoding and machine learning.

FEMS microbiology ecology
Microbial communities, which include prokaryotes and protists, play an important role in aquatic ecosystems and influence ecological processes. To understand these communities, metabarcoding provides a powerful tool to assess their taxonomic composit...

How widespread use of generative AI for images and video can affect the environment and the science of ecology.

Ecology letters
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models will have broad impacts on society including the scientific enterprise; ecology and environmental science will be no exception. Here, we discuss the potential opportunities and risks of advanced generati...

Deep learning to extract the meteorological by-catch of wildlife cameras.

Global change biology
Microclimate-proximal climatic variation at scales of metres and minutes-can exacerbate or mitigate the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. However, most microclimate studies are temperature centric, and do not consider meteorological factors ...

Biodiversity assessment using passive acoustic recordings from off-reef location-Unsupervised learning to classify fish vocalization.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
We present the quantitative characterization of Grande Island's off-reef acoustic environment within the Zuari estuary during the pre-monsoon period. Passive acoustic recordings reveal prominent fish choruses. Detailed characteristics of the call emp...

Text-mined fossil biodiversity dynamics using machine learning.

Proceedings. Biological sciences
Documented occurrences of fossil taxa are the empirical foundation for understanding large-scale biodiversity changes and evolutionary dynamics in deep time. The fossil record contains vast amounts of understudied taxa. Yet the compilation of huge vo...

Parsing human and biophysical drivers of coral reef regimes.

Proceedings. Biological sciences
Coral reefs worldwide face unprecedented cumulative anthropogenic effects of interacting local human pressures, global climate change and distal social processes. Reefs are also bound by the natural biophysical environment within which they exist. In...

Predicting reservoir hosts and arthropod vectors from evolutionary signatures in RNA virus genomes.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
Identifying the animal origins of RNA viruses requires years of field and laboratory studies that stall responses to emerging infectious diseases. Using large genomic and ecological datasets, we demonstrate that animal reservoirs and the existence an...

The anatomy of phenotype ontologies: principles, properties and applications.

Briefings in bioinformatics
The past decade has seen an explosion in the collection of genotype data in domains as diverse as medicine, ecology, livestock and plant breeding. Along with this comes the challenge of dealing with the related phenotype data, which is not only large...