Ecological Informatics

Article	Citations
Foundation models in shaping the future of ecology	333
Automated detection of sea cucumbers in turbid subtidal marine habitats: An explainable approach	255
Automated plant species identification from the stomata images using deep neural network: A study of selected mangrove and freshwater swamp forest tree species of Bangladesh	210
Robustness and limitations of maximum entropy in plant community assembly	156
Effects of long-term enclosing on distributions of carbon and nitrogen in semia-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia	151
Evaluation of earth observation datasets for LST trends over India and its implication in global warming	148
Low cost, high efficiency: LiDAR place recognition in vineyards with Matryoshka Representation Learning	143
PAG-MSBNet:Prototype-aware gated multi-scale branch network for open-set crop disease recognition	140
Modeling CO2 fluxes in coastal wetlands of China using explainable sequence-based deep learning	135
WQEye (v1): A Python-based software for machine learning-based retrieval of water quality parameters from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8/9 remote sensing data aided by Google Earth Engine	130
Deep learning-based keypoint detection for morphological measurement of termite legs with potential occlusion	129
Sampling biases across interaction types affect the robustness of ecological multilayer networks	129
“Flower power”: How flowering affects spectral diversity metrics and their relationship with plant diversity	126
Identifying sand and dust storm sources using spatial-temporal analysis of remote sensing data in Central Iran	125
Foundation models for bioacoustics – A comparative review	125
Spatiotemporal variation and prediction of NPP in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by coupling PLUS and CASA models	107
Potato crop disease prediction in Prince Edward Island using machine learning: A decision support approach for farmers	106
A novel algal bloom risk assessment framework by integrating environmental factors based on explainable machine learning	103
Automatic detection of color markings and numbers on trees in point clouds from Personal Laser Scanning (PLS) and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS)	100
A review of acoustic systems for insect monitoring: From recording technologies to species recognition performance	96
Predicting eucalyptus plantation growth and yield using Landsat imagery in Minas Gerais, Brazil	96
Exploring the connection of physical habitat health of the wetland with its gas regulating services	95
Advancing long-term precipitation pattern forecasting in Atlantic Canada using successive variational mode decomposition, recursive LSTM, and graph-based feature selection	93
Selection against ruderals in Danish grasslands over an eight-year period	90
Comparing phenocam color indices with phenological observations of black spruce in the boreal forest	88

Editorial Board	86
Evaluation of Gangetic dolphin habitat suitability under hydroclimatic changes using a coupled hydrological-hydrodynamic approach	86
Spatiotemporal water dynamic modelling of Ramsar-listed lakes on the Victorian Volcanic Plains using Landsat, ICESat-2 and airborne LiDAR data	84
Beekeeping suitability prediction based on an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and apiary level data	84
A data-driven approach for the assessment of the thermal stratification of reservoirs based on readily available data	81
Remote sensing algorithm for dissolved organic carbon in the Laptev Sea: Correction of photobleaching effect using spectral slope	77
Background-invariant re-identification of dogs from camera-trap videos in non-controlled environments	77
ResHAN-GAM: A novel model for the inversion and prediction of soil organic matter content	75
Multilabel classification of peatland plant species from high-resolution drone images	75
Estimation of canopy nitrogen nutrient status in lodging maize using unmanned aerial vehicles hyperspectral data	75
Climate change and dispersion dynamics of the invasive plant species Chromolaena odorata and Lantana camara in parts of the central and eastern India	75
Spatial and temporal evolution of heatwaves in Taiwan in a changing climate using multi-dimensional complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition	74
Deep-CABPred: Deep learning model for predicting functional chlorophyll a-b binding proteins in trait-based plant ecology using hybrid embedding with semi-normalized temporal convolutional networks	74
Combining habitat selection, behavioural states, and individual variation to predict fish spatial usage near a barrier	72
A fine-tuning workflow for CNN-based bat acoustic classification	71
Benchmarking remote sensing methods to capture plant functional diversity from space	71
What AIS misses and Acoustics reveal: Monitoring seafloor disturbance and recovery from bottom trawling in the southern Baltic Sea over five years	70
Orchard plantation mapping using remote sensing phenological feature fusion and interpretable ML algorithms in Hunan Province, China	70
Exploiting facial side similarities to improve AI-driven sea turtle photo-identification systems	69
Evaluation of the monitoring capability of various vegetation indices and mainstream satellite band settings for grassland drought	69
Ecological security patterns of Chinese lakes based on ecosystem service values assessment and human threat factors evaluation	68
Motion vectors and deep neural networks for video camera traps	68
Bayesian networks as a novel tool to enhance interpretability and predictive power of ecological models	67
Biological-based and remote sensing techniques to link vegetative and reproductive development and assess pollen emission in Mediterranean grasses	67
Functional diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates and fluvial habitat quality: Key biological trait categories	67
The utility of Planetscope spectral data in quantifying above-ground carbon stock in an urban reforested landscape	65
YoloXT: A object detection algorithm for marine benthos	65
Construction and optimization of ecological networks in karst regions based on multi-scale nesting: A case study in Guangxi Hechi, China	62
Multi-output regression with structurally incomplete target labels: A case study of modelling global vegetation cover	62
Spatial modeling tool to assess and rank peri-urban land use in an agricultural region of the Midwestern United States	62
Seasonal habitat suitability and distribution patterns of Mediterranean fin whales	62
Overcoming cloud obstruction: Fast forest-damage assessment in post-tropical cyclone optical remote sensing	61
Machine learning approach for estimating length–weight relationships in key shark species to support fisheries management	60
Remote sensing-based spatiotemporal dynamics of agricultural drought on Prince Edward Island using Google Earth engine	60
Automated detection of 20 Hz fin whale calls using computer vision techniques	59
Predicting current and future distributions of Mentha pulegium L. in Tunisia under climate change conditions, using the MaxEnt model	59
Machine-learning aiding sustainable Indian Ocean tuna purse seine fishery	59
Assessing habitat diversity and potential areas of similarity across protected areas globally	59
Spatial and temporal representation of marine fish occurrences available online	58
On the importance of integrating convolution features for Indian medicinal plant species classification using hierarchical machine learning approach	58
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity of ecological water level in Poyang Lake, China	57
Predictive mapping of two endemic oak tree species under climate change scenarios in a semiarid region: Range overlap and implications for conservation	57
Leveraging citizen science to classify and track benthic habitat states: An unsupervised UMAP-HDBSCAN pipeline applied to the global reef life survey dataset	57
Metaweb approaches for understanding complex ecological interactions: A review	57
An image enhancement approach for coral reef fish detection in underwater videos	57
Individual tree crown width detection from unmanned aerial vehicle images using a revised local transect method	56
Temporal dynamics of biodiversity in benthic macroinvertebrate communities from a 140-year sedimentary DNA record and their driving mechanisms	56
Metric learning unveiling disparities: A novel approach to recognize false trigger images in wildlife monitoring	56
A workflow to create trait databases from collections of textual taxonomic descriptions	56
Flood-drought shifts monitoring on arid Xinjiang, China using a novel machine learning based algorithm	56

Towards heat tolerant metagenome functional prediction, coral microbial community composition, and enrichment analysis	55
Transferable species distribution modelling: Comparative performance of Generalised Functional Response models	55
Distance sampling and spatial capture-recapture for estimating density of Northern Bobwhite	54
Comparing the physico-chemistry dynamics of running waters (North-East of France) based on sequence clustering	54
Flexible simulation of animal thermoregulatory behavior in three-dimensional synthetic environments from thermal and optical images	54
A geographical traceability method for Lanmaoa asiatica mushrooms from 20 township-level geographical origins by near infrared spectroscopy and ResNet image analysis techniques	53
The first inventory of gullies in the Upper Taquari River Basin (Brazil) and its agreement with land use classes	53
Long-term phosphorus mass-balance of Lake Erie (Canada-USA) reveals a major contribution of in-lake phosphorus loading	53
Uncovering environmental implications of historical stewardship of Japanese Moso Bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) forests: a review using a multivariate imputation approach	53
Arctic diel and circadian acoustic pattern of Orcas, Fin, and Humpback whales revealed by deep learning from two months of continuous recordings	53
The relative impact of co-occurring stressors on the abundance of benthic species examined with three-way correspondence analysis	53
Artificial intelligence for carbon emissions using system of systems theory	52
High risk water pollution hazards affecting Aveiro coastal lagoon (Portugal) – A habitat risk assessment using InVEST	51
Enhancing palm precision agriculture: An approach based on deep learning and UAVs for efficient palm tree detection	51
Machine learning and GIS-RS-based algorithms for mapping the groundwater potentiality in the Bundelkhand region, India	51
The dynamic driving mechanisms of wetland change from an asynchrony-spatiotemporal perspective: A case study in Pearl River Delta, China	50
An adaptive method for individual tree segmentation synthesizing canopy cover and competitive mechanism using UAV data	50
Impact of topography and climate on post-fire vegetation recovery across different burn severity and land cover types through random forest	50
YWnet: A convolutional block attention-based fusion deep learning method for complex underwater small target detection	50
Spatiotemporal changes and driving mechanism of ecosystem carbon sink in karst peak cluster depression basin in Southwest Guangxi based on the interaction of “water-rock-soil-air-biology”	50
Impact of climatic changes and anthropogenic activities on ecosystem net primary productivity in India during 2001–2019	50
Detection of dense fish schools in sonar imagery with a novel YOLOv11-SAS model	49
Automated near real-time monitoring in ecology: Status quo and ways forward	49
CrossKAN: A bivariate cross KAN model for hyperspectral change detection	49
Identification of free-ranging mugger crocodiles by applying deep learning methods on UAV imagery	49
Deep learning for automated identification of Vietnamese timber species: A tool for ecological monitoring and conservation	49
Evaluation of driving effects of carbon storage change in the source of the Yellow River: A perspective with CMIP6 future development scenarios	49
Assessing water quality environmental grades using hyperspectral images and a deep learning model: A case study in Jiangsu, China	49
A2ANet: Real-time detection of floating marine debris using atrous convolution and channel attention	48
Predicting long-term environmental acoustic urban patterns using 2-slot short-term measurement and feed-forward artificial neural networks	48
Nowhere to go: Potential distribution shifts of a widespread lizard under two climate change scenarios	47
Centroid-AME: An open-source software for estimating avian migration trajectories using population centroids movement in the annual cycle	47
Intercomparison of high spatial resolution LAI remote sensing products at forest sites	47
New generation neurocomputing learning coupled with a hybrid neuro-fuzzy model for quantifying water quality index variable: A case study from Saudi Arabia	47
Quantifying observer variance in expansive monitoring program indicator data with heterogeneous-variance mixed-effects models	46
A modeling framework for forest aboveground biomass estimation in mixed forests of the southeastern United States using airborne lidar and PlanetScope data	46
Associations of oxygen availability with eukaryotic plankton assembly and coalescence in river–lake ecotones	46
Adaptive image processing embedding to make the ecological tasks of deep learning more robust on camera traps images	46
Forest-Chat: Adapting vision-language agents for interactive forest change analysis	45
Symbolic encoding of bottlenose dolphin signature whistles: A lightweight method for representation and comparison	45
Spatial relationship between ecosystem health and urbanization in coastal mountain city, Qingdao, China	45
SOCI-YOLO11n: A deep learning model for identifying invasive freshwater turtles in complex ecological contexts	45
Bioclimatic controls on vegetation growth in natural and agro-mosaic montane cloud ecosystems	45
Designing water-saving-ecological check dam sites by a system optimization model in a region of the loess plateau, Northwest China	44
Exploring the optimal model for assessing SOC and TN in Zanthoxylum bungeanum forest on the Loess Plateau using VNIR spectroscopy	44
MobileNet-GRU fusion for optimizing diagnosis of yellow vein mosaic virus	44
A new approach to estimate total nitrogen concentration in a seasonal lake based on multi-source data methodology	44
Optimizing landslide susceptibility mapping using machine learning and geospatial techniques	44
Balancing urban expansion with ecological integrity: An ESP framework for rapidly urbanizing small and medium-sized cities, with insights from Suizhou, China	44
Normalized difference vegetation index prediction based on the delta downscaling method and back-propagation artificial neural network under climate change in the Sanjiangyuan region, China	44
Using neural style transfer to study the evolution of animal signal design: A case study in an ornamented fish	44
Assessing Gonipterus defoliation levels using multispectral unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data in Eucalyptus plantations	43
Mapping spatiotemporal mortality patterns in spruce mountain forests using Sentinel-2 data and environmental factors	43
Mapping high-resolution XCO2 concentrations in China from 2015 to 2020 based on spatiotemporal ensemble learning model	43
Forecasting the abundance of disease vectors with deep learning	43
Commentary on Automatic identification of Chagas disease vectors using data mining and deep learning techniques	42
SooSim, a landscape model for assessing mire habitat degradation and restoration	42
Monitoring vegetation patterns and their drivers to infer resilience: Automated detection of vegetation and megaherbivores from drone imagery using deep learning	42
A comparative study of four deep learning algorithms for predicting tree stem radius measured by dendrometer: A case study	42
A comprehensive evaluation of deep learning approaches for ground-level ozone prediction across different regions	42
Territorial spatial vulnerability assessment based on PSO-BP neural network: A case study in Shenzhen, China	42
Spatial patterning of benthic macroinvertebrate communities using Geo-self-organizing map (Geo-SOM): A case study in the Nakdong River, South Korea	42
Enhancing rice seed purity recognition accuracy based on optimal feature selection	42
Comparing socioeconomic vulnerability index and land cover indices: Application of fuzzy TOPSIS model and geographic information system	42
Combining environmental DNA and remote sensing variables to model fish biodiversity in tropical river ecosystems	41
SALMA: A machine learning tool for precise leaf morphology measurements	41
Advancing provenance assignment using machine learning and time series analysis of chemical chronologies in archival tissues	41
Characteristics of built-up land change in resource-based cities and their impact on land surface temperature—Taking Wu'an as an example	40
An automated approach for counting ants in densely populated images and gaining insight into ant foraging behavior	40
Working with GNSS collar data. The importance of pre-analysis when setting the sampling interval	40
A novel hybrid machine learning approach for δ13C spatial prediction in polish hard-water lakes	40
Predicting invasive species distributions using incremental ensemble-based pseudo-labeling	40
Multi-camera synchronization and instance tracking for Avian behavior analysis in a floating aviary	40
LEAVES: An open-source web-based tool for the scalable annotation and visualisation of large-scale ecoacoustic datasets using cluster analysis	40
Real-time measurement of individual tree structure parameters based on augmented reality in an urban environment	40
Evaluating the temporal patterns of land use and precipitation under desertification in the semi-arid region of Brazil	39
Vegetation coverage precisely extracting and driving factors analysis in drylands	39
A framework for dynamic assessment of soil erosion and detection of driving factors in alpine grassland ecosystems using the RUSLE-InVEST (SDR) model and Geodetector: A case study of the source region	39
Multi-decadal temporal reconstruction of Sentinel-3 OLCI-based vegetation products with multi-output Gaussian process regression	39
Automated note annotation after bioacoustic classification: Unsupervised clustering of extracted acoustic features improves detection of a cryptic owl	39

A high resolution spatial modelling framework for landscape-level, strategic conservation planning	39
Efficient wildlife monitoring: Deep learning-based detection and counting of green turtles in coastal areas	38
A simulation based approach for enhancing automatic detection of cicada songs in challenging chorus conditions	38
Remote sensing-derived land surface temperature trends over South Asia	38
Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics and drivers of forest ecosystems in southern Europe with explainable machine learning	38
Assessing the impact of gold mining on forest cover in the Surinamese Amazon from 1997 to 2019: A semi-automated satellite-based approach	38
Analyzing wildfire patterns and climate interactions in Campania, Italy: A multi-sensor remote sensing study	38
The Frankenstein species distribution modelling: A composite Bayesian framework accounting for spatio-temporal heterogeneity in ecologically diverse regions	38
Reliable and efficient integration of AI into camera traps for smart wildlife monitoring based on continual learning	38
Bibliometric analysis of human–wildlife conflict: From conflict to coexistence	38
An explainable ensemble machine-learning framework for short-term forecasting of algal blooms across contrasting Lake systems	37
Advancing invasive species monitoring: A free tool for detecting invasive cane toads using continental-scale data	37
UAV-RGB-image-based aboveground biomass equation for planted forest in semi-arid Inner Mongolia, China	37
Utilizing deep transfer learning to discover changes in landscape patterns in urban wetland parks based on multispectral remote sensing	37
CE-CNN-FA-BiGRU: A novel deep learning framework for sap flow prediction across trees at different ages and species with historical environmental factors	37
From LSA to LLM: Evolution and limitations of topic modelling methods for biodiversity conservation	37
Modeling forest fire risk based on GIS-based analytical hierarchy process and statistical analysis in Mediterranean region	37
Predictive modeling of regional carbon storage dynamics in response to land use/land cover changes: An InVEST-based analysis	37
Individual-based modelling of small pelagic fish in the Adriatic Sea: integrating stock assessments, ecophysiology of fish, and environmental forcings	37
A stacking ANN ensemble model of ML models for stream water quality prediction of Godavari River Basin, India	37
Cross-scale observation of riparian vegetation: Testing the potential of satellite-UAV-Field integrated observations for large-scale herbaceous species	37
YOLO_MRC: A fast and lightweight model for real-time detection and individual counting of Tephritidae pests	37
Using 360-degree panoramic technology to explore the mechanisms underlying the influence of landscape features on visual landscape quality in traditional villages	36
Coastal waterbird eco-habitat stability assessment in Zhangjiangkou Mangrove National Nature Reserve Based on habitat function-coordination coupling	36
Three-dimensional graph reconstruction of filamentous structures from z-stack images	36
The Atlantic forest is a potentially climatic suitable habitat for four Neotropical Myrtaceae species through time	36
Responses of soil respiration and its sensitivities to temperature and precipitation: A meta-analysis	36
Assessment of land surface vulnerability using time-series geospatial datasets	36
Simplifying the calibration of ecological models by using the parameter estimation tool (PEST): The Curonian Lagoon case	36
Refining landsat-based annual NDVImax estimation using shape model fitting and phenological metrics	35
Influences of vegetation, model, and data parameters on forest aboveground biomass assessment using an area-based approach	35
Assessing the distribution of nocturnal chlorophyll-a in the Northwest Pacific Ocean using ocean color and fishery echosounder acoustic data	35
Impacts of global climate change on the spatial range of insects distributed across the Pacific Ocean	35
Feature embeddings from the BirdNET algorithm provide insights into avian ecology	35
Balancing signature variance between local and global minima/maxima: Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) classification and the search for plagioclimax	35
Drone imagery and deep learning for mapping the density of wild Pacific oysters to manage their expansion into protected areas	35
Dynamic simulation and key influencing factors of carbon storage in the water-depleted zones of an arid Inland River Basin: Insights from the Tarim River mainstream	35
Divergent dynamics of surface water patterns and structures in Europe's coastal-zone basins	35
Reconstructing coastal ponds functional classification: Integration of multi-feature remote sensing	35
Stochastic network to model the global spreading of respiratory diseases: From SARS-CoV-2 to pathogen X pandemic	35
Species misidentification affects biodiversity metrics: Dealing with this issue using the new R package naturaList	35
Embracing asymmetry in nature: How to account for skewness in ecological data	34
Mapping global orchid assemblages with deep learning provides novel conservation insights	34
A recognition method of multispectral images of soybean canopies based on neural network	34
Integrating AI technologies and citizen science to fast-track small and ectothermic animal monitoring	34
Improving AI performance in wildlife monitoring through species and environment-specific training: A case study on desert Bighorn sheep	34
Rookognise: Acoustic detection and identification of individual rooks in field recordings using multi-task neural networks	34
Zonation-based prioritization of vegetation conservation for terminal lakes in drylands	34
Exploring the trade-offs between spatial and spectral resolution in mapping invasive alien trees	34
An integrated system for the acoustic monitoring of goat farms	34
Comparison of patch-based and synoptic connectivity algorithms with graph theory metrics. A case study in Reggio Calabria metropolitan area (South Italy)	34
Change in cereal production caused by climate change in Malaysia	33
Evaluating the efficiency of future crop pattern modelling using the CLUE-S approach in an agricultural plain	33
Estimating net primary productivity of semi-arid Crimean pine stands using biogeochemical modelling, remote sensing, and machine learning	33
Best practices for AI-based image analysis applications in aquatic sciences: The iMagine case study	33
Bacterial community characterization by deep learning aided image analysis in soil chips	33
SILIC: A cross database framework for automatically extracting robust biodiversity information from soundscape recordings based on object detection and a tiny training dataset	33
HydroEcoLSTM: A Python package with graphical user interface for hydro-ecological modeling with long short-term memory neural network	33
Evaluating machine leaning algorithms for accuracy, stability, and among-predictors discriminability in modeling species-richness across ten datasets	33
Enhancing mango disease diagnosis through eco-informatics: A deep learning approach	32
Application of machine learning approaches for land cover monitoring in northern Cameroon	32
Demonstrating the relevance of spatial-functional statistical analysis in marine ecological studies: The case of environmental variations in micronektonic layers	32
Global climatic impact on the sea kraits living near the tectonic plate boundaries	32
Land-Unet: A deep learning network for precise segmentation and identification of non-structured land use types in rural areas for green urban space analysis	32
Predicting the impact of future climate changes and range-shifts of Indian hornbills (family: Bucerotidae)	32
TreeLearn: A deep learning method for segmenting individual trees from ground-based LiDAR forest point clouds	32
Winter wheat yield prediction in the conterminous United States using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence data and XGBoost and random forest algorithm	32
Parallel xLSTM-informer model for long-term dissolved oxygen prediction using STL decomposition and Bayesian optimization	32
Potential of Sentinel-2 time series in capturing boreal forest structural diversity	32
Vision transformer meets convolutional neural network for plant disease classification	31
The influence of biophysical characteristics on elephant space use in an African savanna	31
Spatiotemporal evolution for early warning of ecological carrying capacity during the urbanization process in the Dongting Lake area, China	31
Improving daily reference evapotranspiration forecasts: Designing AI-enabled recurrent neural networks based long short-term memory	31
Benchmarking wild bird detection in complex forest scenes	31
VCPNET: A new dataset to benchmark vegetation carbon phenology metrics	31
Predictive performance of machine learning model with varying sampling designs, sample sizes, and spatial extents	31
Change in habitat suitability of the invasive Snowflake coral (Carijoa riisei) during climate change: An ensemble modelling approach	30
Prototyping a system for detection and notification of damage or theft in beehives	30
Remote sensing of flowers	30
Assessment of pan coefficient performance: A comparative study of empirical and model-driven approaches using a hill-climbing-based alternating model tree and MOORA	30
Using hierarchical text classification to investigate the utility of machine learning in automating online analyses of wildlife exploitation	30
A data-integration approach to correct sampling bias in species distribution models using multiple datasets of breeding birds in the Swiss Alps	30
Spatiotemporal evolution analysis of human disturbances on giant panda: A new approach to study cumulative influences with large spatial scales	30
Spatiotemporal water quality data reconstruction: A tensor factorization framework	30
A systematic review on hyperspectral imaging technology with a machine and deep learning methodology for agricultural applications	30
Wavelet-based feature extraction with hidden Markov model classification of Antarctic blue whale sounds	30
Identifying the habitat suitability and built-in corridors for Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) movement in the northern highlands of Pakistan	30
ESC-YOLOv8-seg: A real-time non-destructive detection framework for small-target surface anomalies in zebrafish underwater monitoring	30
Evaluation and validation of forest models: Insight from Mediterranean and scots pine models in Spain	30
Variability and ecological relevance of alternative group structures in food webs	30
Analysing the capacity of multispectral indices to map the spatial distribution of potential post-fire soil losses based on soil burn severity	30
Deep learning-based segmentation for disease identification	29
Evaluation and comparison of the earth observing sensors in land cover/land use studies using machine learning algorithms	29
Plant leaf classification using the multiscale entropy of curvature and feature aggregation	29
Bioclimatic similarity between species locations and their environment revealed by dimensionality reduction analysis	29