Neural-Network Maxent: a general extension with learned nonlinearity, applied to time-series for Desert Locust distribution modelling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03603v1
• Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:48:28 GMT
• Title: Neural-Network Maxent: a general extension with learned nonlinearity, applied to time-series for Desert Locust distribution modelling
• Abstract summary: RNN Maxent is an extension of the Maxent framework that replaces the fixed feature dictionary with a neural network.<n>We map suitable habitat for the Desert Locust using 50 day environmental time series derived from ERA5 Land, MODIS, and Sentinel 3.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) is essential for understanding how environmental conditions shape biodiversity, particularly for destructive pests such as the Desert Locust (Schistocerca gregaria), whose breeding dynamics are tightly coupled to rapidly evolving environmental conditions. Maxent has become the dominant method for presence-only data, but its reliance on a linear combination of hand chosen feature transforms limits its ability to capture the nonlinear, temporal relationships common in ecological monitoring, where covariates such as precipitation, soil moisture, and vegetation indices evolve meaningfully over time. Standard implementations flatten time-series covariates into independent features, discarding sequential structure that carries critical signal. We introduce RNN Maxent, an extension of the Maxent framework that replaces the fixed feature dictionary with a neural network, specifically a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), trained end to end via backpropagation. The approach preserves Maxent's presence only statistical foundations, background normalization, and probability calibration, differing only in that the nonlinearity is learned from data rather than fixed in advance. We apply RNN Maxent to map suitable habitat for the Desert Locust using 50 day environmental time series derived from ERA5 Land, MODIS, and Sentinel 3, maintaining a 7 day gap between covariates and presence records to yield forecasting behavior. Compared against standard Maxent, RNN Maxent improves performance across metrics (ROC AUC 0.862 std 0.036 vs. 0.792; F1 0.671 std 0.056 vs. 0.590).

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