Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 25; no. 12; pp. 2753 - 2775
• Main Authors: Besson, Marc, Alison, Jamie, Bjerge, Kim, Gorochowski, Thomas E., Høye, Toke T., Jucker, Tommaso, Mann, Hjalte M. R., Clements, Christopher F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2022; Wiley; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Automatic; Automation; Biodiversity; Biodiversity and Ecology; Biota; Community ecology; computer vision; data collection; Data recording; deep learning; Ecological monitoring; Ecology; Ecology, environment; Ecosystem; Engineering Sciences; environmental knowledge; Environmental Sciences; Geographical distribution; global change; high‐resolution monitoring; Life Sciences; Machine Learning; Multidimensional data; remote sensing; species abundance; Species classification; Statistics; Synthesis; Workflow; deep learning; remote sensing; high-resolution monitoring; community ecology; computer vision

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...