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Applications of artificial neural networks for patterning and predicting aquatic insect species richness in running waters

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ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
卷 160, 期 3, 页码 265-280

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DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(02)00258-2

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self-organizing-map; backpropagation algorithm; ordination; classification; prediction; aquatic insects; species richness

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Two artificial neural networks (ANNs), unsupervised and supervised learning algorithms, were applied to suggest practical approaches for the analysis of ecological data. Four major aquatic insect orders (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera, and Coleoptera, i.e. EPTC), and four environmental variables (elevation, stream order, distance from the source, and water temperature) were used to implement the models. The data were collected and measured at 155 sampling sites on streams of the Adour-Garonne drainage basin (South-western France). The modelling procedure was carried out following two steps. First, a self-organizing map (SOM), an unsupervised ANN, was applied to classify sampling sites using EPTC richness. Second, a backpropagation algorithm (BP),. a supervised ANN, was applied to predict EPTC richness using a set of four environmental variables. The trained SOM classified sampling sites according to a gradient of EPTC richness, and the groups obtained corresponded,to geographic regions of the drainage basin and characteristics of their environmental variables. The SOM showed its convenience to analyze relationships among sampling sites, biological attributes, and environmental variables. After accounting for the relationships in data sets, the BP used to predict the EPTC richness with a, set of four environmental variables, showed a high accuracy (r = 0.91 and r = 0.61 for training and test data sets respectively). The prediction of EPTC richness is thus a valuable tool to. assess disturbances in given areas: by knowing what the EPTC richness should be, we can determine the degree to which disturbances have altered it. The results suggested that methodologies successively using two different neural networks are helpful to understand ecological data through ordination first, and then to predict target variables: (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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