Optimizing the Framework for Species Conservation Priorities Calculation Based on Citizen Science Data:Application of Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization Algorithms
Optimizing the Framework for Species Conservation Priorities Calculation Based on Citizen Science Data:Application of Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization Algorithms
Citizen science records are commonly used as data sources in planning research and practice.However,there are issues including limited representativeness of observation points and clustering of hotspots,leading to biases in the analysis based on them.It is important to fully understand their limitations and possible deviations for effective conservation planning.We used bird survey data from 100 transects in Guangzhou as a benchmark to assess how various data filtering and prioritization methods improves the results from concurrent citizen science data.Applied machine learning with a max entropy model to simulate 275 bird species'occurrence probabilities according to their records and environments,which then informed conservation priority calculations.The results revealed clustering in Guangzhou's citizen science data.Sparsity can alleviate deviation,yet it still lags significantly in representativeness compared to systematic survey-based results.Compared with the conservation priority estimation results of the traditional richness method and the intelligent optimization algorithm,it is found that the latter can identify habitats with low richness but more important for specific species effectively,and has an obvious alleviation on the bias of conservation priority estimation results caused by the uneven sampling of citizen science data.The results show that it is advisable to use a variety of methods to screen data,simulate species distribution,and estimate conservation priorities in order to obtain relatively reliable results when using citizen science records for planning research and practice.
关键词
风景园林/风景园林规划/生物多样性保护/物种分布模型/人工智能/公民科学
Key words
landscape architecture/landscape planning/biodiversity conservation/species distribution model/artificial intelligence/citizen science