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Learning habitat models for the diatom community in Lake Prespa

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  • Kocev, Dragi
  • Naumoski, Andreja
  • Mitreski, Kosta
  • Krstić, Svetislav
  • Džeroski, Sašo

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Habitat suitability modelling studies the influence of abiotic factors on the abundance or diversity of a given taxonomic group of organisms. In this work, we investigate the effect of the environmental conditions of Lake Prespa (Republic of Macedonia) on diatom communities. The data contain measurements of physical and chemical properties of the environment as well as the relative abundances of 116 diatom taxa. In addition, we create a separate dataset that contains information only about the top 10 most abundant diatoms. We use two machine learning techniques to model the data: regression trees and multi-target regression trees. We learn a regression tree for each taxon separately (from the top 10 most abundant) to identify the environmental conditions that influence the abundance of the given diatom taxon. We learn two multi-target regression trees: one for modelling the complete community and the other for the top 10 most abundant diatoms. The multi-target regression trees approach is able to detect the conditions that affect the structure of a diatom community (as compared to other approaches that can model only a single target variable). We interpret and compare the obtained models. The models present knowledge about the influence of metallic ions and nutrients on the structure of the diatom community, which is consistent with, but further extends existing expert knowledge.

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  • Kocev, Dragi & Naumoski, Andreja & Mitreski, Kosta & Krstić, Svetislav & Džeroski, Sašo, 2010. "Learning habitat models for the diatom community in Lake Prespa," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 221(2), pages 330-337.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:221:y:2010:i:2:p:330-337
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.09.002
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    1. Kocev, Dragi & Džeroski, Sašo & White, Matt D. & Newell, Graeme R. & Griffioen, Peter, 2009. "Using single- and multi-target regression trees and ensembles to model a compound index of vegetation condition," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 220(8), pages 1159-1168.
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