Machine Learning Reveals Large-scale Impact of Posidonia Oceanica on Mediterranean Sea Water

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14459v1
• Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 11:35:52 GMT
• Title: Machine Learning Reveals Large-scale Impact of Posidonia Oceanica on Mediterranean Sea Water
• Authors: Celio Trois, Luciana Didonet Del Fabro, Vladimir A. Baulin
• Abstract summary: Posidonia oceanica is a protected endemic seagrass of Mediterranean sea that fosters biodiversity, stores carbon, releases oxygen, and provides habitat to numerous sea organisms. The study provides the evidence of the plant's ability to exert a global impact on the environment and underscores the crucial role of this plant in sea ecosystems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Posidonia oceanica is a protected endemic seagrass of Mediterranean sea that fosters biodiversity, stores carbon, releases oxygen, and provides habitat to numerous sea organisms. Leveraging augmented research, we collected a comprehensive dataset of 174 features compiled from diverse data sources. Through machine learning analysis, we discovered the existence of a robust correlation between the exact location of P. oceanica and water biogeochemical properties. The model's feature importance, showed that carbon-related variables as net biomass production and downward surface mass flux of carbon dioxide have their values altered in the areas with P. oceanica, which in turn can be used for indirect location of P. oceanica meadows. The study provides the evidence of the plant's ability to exert a global impact on the environment and underscores the crucial role of this plant in sea ecosystems, emphasizing the need for its conservation and management.

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