reviewEcology LettersOct 20, 2022HYBRID OA

Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities

MBMarc BessonJAJamie AlisonKBKim BjergeTEThomas E. GorochowskiTTToke T. Høye

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · University of Bristol · +4 more institutions

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Abstract

High-resolution monitoring is fundamental to understand ecosystems dynamics in an era of global change and biodiversity declines. While real-time and automated monitoring of abiotic components has been possible for some time, monitoring biotic components-for example, individual behaviours and traits, and species abundance and distribution-is far more challenging. Recent technological advancements offer potential solutions to achieve this through: (i) increasingly affordable high-throughput recording hardware, which can collect rich multidimensional data, and (ii) increasingly accessible artificial intelligence approaches, which can extract ecological knowledge from large datasets. However, automating the…

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  • Ecology
  • Environmental resource management
  • Environmental science
  • Geography
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