Perspectives and progress of ecology and conservation science in the Azores: th...

• Autor(es): Borges, Paulo A. V. ; Cardoso, Pedro ; Guerreiro, Orlando ; Rigal, François ; Florencio, Margarita ; Amorim, Isabel R. ; Borda-de-Água, Luís ; Cascalho, José Manuel ; Ferreira, Miguel
• Data: 2013
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/2994
• Origem: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Assunto(s): Abundance; Distribution; Species Richness; Speciation; Modeling
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

EPIA 2013 - XVI Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, Portugal, 9 – 12 September. There is an urgent need of new methodologies in ecological and conservation science to deal with increasingly complex problems. We introduce four emerging research areas in ecology in which Artificial Intelligence may be explored as a tool to tackle unsolved issues in island ecosystems: (1) modeling abundance of plant and animal species in space and time; (2) modeling spread of invasive species; (3) estimating species richness based on incomplete sampling and (4) modeling speciation and diversification in insular habitats.