Evaluation of Deep Species Distribution Models using Environment and Co-occurrences
This paper presents an evaluation of several approaches of plants species distribution modeling based on spatial, environmental and co-occurrences data using machine learning methods. In particular, we re-evaluate the environmental convolutional neural network model that obtained the best performance of the GeoLifeCLEF 2018 challenge but on a revised dataset that fixes some of the issues of the previous one. We also go deeper in the analysis of co-occurrences information by evaluating a new model that jointly takes environmental variables and co-occurrences as inputs of an end-to-end network. Results show that the environmental models are the best performing methods and that there is a significant amount of complementary information between co-occurrences and environment. Indeed, the model learned on both inputs allows a significant performance gain compared to the environmental model alone.
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