The Applications of Artificial Intelligence on the Conservation of Biodiversity
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1539
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Interests: statistics; wildlife survey; conservation planning; animal movement; species distribution modelling; machine learning
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Interests: avian migration; AI and machine learning; spatiotemporal dynamics in ecology; wildlife population ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biodiversity loss is one of the greatest environmental crises and challenges since the Anthropocene epoch. Globally joint conservation efforts are needed to revert the ongoing trend of biodiversity loss. Science-based decisions of global or regional biodiversity conservations have become more data driven with an increasing number of applications of innovative digitalized data acquisitions. Furthermore, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have revolutionized and automated important inferences from such data to facilitate timely decision-making processes with rapid and even “online” inferences. Such AI-assisted timely inferences are critically important for the conservations of biodiversity under the rapidly changing environments. Successful examples of applications of AI and ML in biodiversity conservation include, but are not limited to, identification of biodiversity hotspots and high-risk areas, monitoring of changes in biodiversity and organism abundances across space and time, detection of poverty regions, and reconstruction or prediction of wildlife movement trajectories using computer vision, deep learning, natural language processing, and robots. Machine Learning and AI have become popular tools for conservation biologists, ecologists, and natural resources managers. However, ML and AI by and large use black box approaches to data inferences. The current generation of AI technologies heavily rely on large amounts of training data, which are rarely structured following ecological processes. Therefore, we call for contributions to this Special Issue in two general categories: (1) innovative ideas of incorporating AI into the conceptual framework and theories of biodiversity conservation biology and ecology; and (2) case studies of innovative applications of ML, natural language processing, deep learning, and robotics in the monitoring and decision making of the conservation of genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity. We hope that this Special Issue provides a venue for applied data scientists, conservation biologists, and natural resource managers to work together to develop AI and ML technologies that improve the mechanistic understanding of mechanisms and processes underlying biodiversity losses and developing the optimal strategies for biodiversity conservations and sustainability of natural resources. Thank you in advance for your contributions to this Special Issue!
Dr. Xinhai Li
Prof. Dr. Guiming Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- machine learning
- natural language processing
- natural resource sustainability
- conservation of biodiversity
- biodiversity