AIMC Topic: Ecology

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Ecology-informed symbolic machine learning: a methodological framework for classification of forest succession.

Environmental monitoring and assessment
Accurately classifying forest successional stages remains a major challenge in applied ecology due to the continuum of succession, ecological heterogeneity, and limited interpretability of many machine learning (ML) approaches. Prevailing models typi...

A computational framework for inferring species dynamics and interactions with applications in microbiota ecology.

NPJ systems biology and applications
We present MBPert, a generic computational framework for inferring species interactions and predicting dynamics in time-evolving ecosystems from perturbation and time-series data. In this work, we contextualize the framework in microbial ecosystem mo...

Ecological epidemiology insights into clonorchiosis endemicity in Guangxi, China and Vietnam: a comprehensive machine learning analysis.

International journal of health geographics
BACKGROUND: Clonorchis sinensis, the liver fluke responsible for clonorchiosis, presents a persistent public health burden in Guangxi (Southern China) and Vietnam. Its transmission is influenced by a complex interplay of ecological, climatic, and soc...

Ecosystem-based reservoir computing. Hypothesis paper.

Bio Systems
Reservoir computing (RC) has emerged as a powerful computational paradigm, leveraging the intrinsic dynamics of complex systems to process temporal data efficiently. Here we propose to extend RC into ecological domains, where the ecosystems themselve...

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...

Making waves: Is water quality trading a false promise for balancing ecology and economy?

Water research
Agriculture is a major contributor to water pollution through nutrient runoff and excessive water use, exacerbating global water scarcity and ecosystem degradation. Water Quality Trading (WQT) has emerged as a market-based mechanism to address this i...

Classification of Mycena and Species Using Deep Learning Models: An Ecological and Taxonomic Approach.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Fungi play a critical role in ecosystems, contributing to biodiversity and providing economic and biotechnological value. In this study, we developed a novel deep learning-based framework for the classification of seven macrofungi species from the ge...

New solutions for antibiotic discovery: Prioritizing microbial biosynthetic space using ecology and machine learning.

PLoS biology
With the explosive increase in genome sequence data, perhaps the major challenge in natural-product-based drug discovery is the identification of gene clusters most likely to specify new chemistry and bioactivities. We discuss the challenges and stat...

Generative AI as a tool to accelerate the field of ecology.

Nature ecology & evolution
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) models specializing in the generation of new data with the statistical patterns and properties of the data upon which the models were trained has profoundly influenced a range of academic disci...

Robots and animals teaming up in the wild to tackle ecosystem challenges.

Science robotics
Interactively teaming up animals and robots could facilitate basic scientific research and address environmental and ecological crises.