An open science automatic workflow for multi-model species distribution estimation
Created March 18, 2026
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An open science automatic workflow for multi-model species distribution estimation
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10.1007/s41060-024-00517-w; 20.500.14243/465765
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Italy
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Coro, Gianpaolo, orcid: 0000-0001-7232-191x ; Sana, Lorenzo, orcid: ; Bove, Pasquale, orcid:
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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Integrated Environmental Assessment systems and ecosystem models study the links between anthropogenic and climatic pressures on marine ecosystems and help understand how to manage the effects of the unsustainable exploitation of ocean resources. However, these models have long implementation times, data and model interoperability issues and require heterogeneous competencies. Therefore, they would benefit from simplification, automatisation, and enhanced integrability of the underlying models. Artificial Intelligence can help overcome several limitations by speeding up the modelling of crucial functional parts, e.g. estimating the environmental conditions fostering a species’ persistence and proliferation in an area (the species’ ecological niche) and, consequently, its geographical distribution. This paper presents a full-automatic workflow to estimate species’ distributions through statistical and machine learning models. It embeds four ecological niche models with complementary approaches, i.e. Artificial Neural Networks, Maximum Entropy, Support Vector Machines, and AquaMaps. It automatically estimates the optimal model parametrisations and decision thresholds to distinguish between suitable- and unsuitable-habitat locations and combines the models within one ensemble model. Finally, it combines several ensemble models to produce a species richness map (biodiversity index). The software is open-source, Open Science compliant, and available as a Web Processing Service-standardised cloud computing service that enhances efficiency, integrability, cross-domain reusability, and experimental reproduction and repetition. We first assess workflow stability and sensitivity and then demonstrate effectiveness by producing a biodiversity index for the Mediterranean based on <jats:inline-formula> <jats:alternatives> <jats:tex-math>$$\sim $$</jats:tex-math> <mml:math xmlns:mml="
Publication Date
2024-03-07
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subjects
0106 biological sciences; 13. Climate action; 14. Life underwater; 15. Life on land; 01 natural sciences; Ecological niche modelling, Marine science, Artificial intelligence, Open Science, Alien and invasive species
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1150
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International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
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Article
Starting page
1131
issnOnline
2364-4168
issnPrinted
2364-415X
vol
20
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