A Deep Generative Artificial Intelligence system to decipher species coexistence patterns

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06020v1
• Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:12:11 GMT
• Title: A Deep Generative Artificial Intelligence system to decipher species coexistence patterns
• Authors: J. Hirn, J. E. Garc\'ia, A. Montesinos-Navarro, R. Sanchez-Mart\'in, V. Sanz, M. Verd\'u
• Abstract summary: We explore cutting-edge Machine Learning techniques to decipher species coexistence patterns in vegetation patches. The GAN accurately reproduces the species composition of real patches as well as the affinity of plant species to different soil types. By reconstructing successional trajectories we could identify the pioneer species with larger potential to generate a high diversity of distinct patches.
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• Abstract: 1. Deciphering coexistence patterns is a current challenge to understanding diversity maintenance, especially in rich communities where the complexity of these patterns is magnified through indirect interactions that prevent their approximation with classical experimental approaches. 2. We explore cutting-edge Machine Learning techniques called Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to decipher species coexistence patterns in vegetation patches, training generative adversarial networks (GAN) and variational AutoEncoders (VAE) that are then used to unravel some of the mechanisms behind community assemblage. 3. The GAN accurately reproduces the species composition of real patches as well as the affinity of plant species to different soil types, and the VAE also reaches a high level of accuracy, above 99%. Using the artificially generated patches, we found that high order interactions tend to suppress the positive effects of low order interactions. Finally, by reconstructing successional trajectories we could identify the pioneer species with larger potential to generate a high diversity of distinct patches in terms of species composition. 4. Understanding the complexity of species coexistence patterns in diverse ecological communities requires new approaches beyond heuristic rules. Generative Artificial Intelligence can be a powerful tool to this end as it allows to overcome the inherent dimensionality of this challenge.

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