Ecological Informatics

Article	Citations
Robustness and limitations of maximum entropy in plant community assembly	339
Selection against ruderals in Danish grasslands over an eight-year period	264
Editorial Board	213
Automated detection of sea cucumbers in turbid subtidal marine habitats: An explainable approach	163
Spatial and temporal evolution of heatwaves in Taiwan in a changing climate using multi-dimensional complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition	154
ResHAN-GAM: A novel model for the inversion and prediction of soil organic matter content	145
YoloXT: A object detection algorithm for marine benthos	145
Multi-output regression with structurally incomplete target labels: A case study of modelling global vegetation cover	140
Construction and optimization of ecological networks in karst regions based on multi-scale nesting: A case study in Guangxi Hechi, China	133
Combining habitat selection, behavioural states, and individual variation to predict fish spatial usage near a barrier	132
Functional diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates and fluvial habitat quality: Key biological trait categories	131
Automatic detection of color markings and numbers on trees in point clouds from Personal Laser Scanning (PLS) and Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS)	131
Spatiotemporal variation and prediction of NPP in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by coupling PLUS and CASA models	131
“Flower power”: How flowering affects spectral diversity metrics and their relationship with plant diversity	112
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	109
Foundation models in shaping the future of ecology	103
Evaluation of earth observation datasets for LST trends over India and its implication in global warming	100
Predicting eucalyptus plantation growth and yield using Landsat imagery in Minas Gerais, Brazil	97
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	97
Exploring the connection of physical habitat health of the wetland with its gas regulating services	97
Motion vectors and deep neural networks for video camera traps	96
A data-driven approach for the assessment of the thermal stratification of reservoirs based on readily available data	92
Spatiotemporal water dynamic modelling of Ramsar-listed lakes on the Victorian Volcanic Plains using Landsat, ICESat-2 and airborne LiDAR data	89
Ecological security patterns of Chinese lakes based on ecosystem service values assessment and human threat factors evaluation	87
Seasonal habitat suitability and distribution patterns of Mediterranean fin whales	86

Effects of long-term enclosing on distributions of carbon and nitrogen in semia-arid grassland of Inner Mongolia	85
Remote sensing algorithm for dissolved organic carbon in the Laptev Sea: Correction of photobleaching effect using spectral slope	85
Exploiting facial side similarities to improve AI-driven sea turtle photo-identification systems	85
Orchard plantation mapping using remote sensing phenological feature fusion and interpretable ML algorithms in Hunan Province, China	81
Identifying sand and dust storm sources using spatial-temporal analysis of remote sensing data in Central Iran	79
Multilabel classification of peatland plant species from high-resolution drone images	79
Beekeeping suitability prediction based on an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and apiary level data	78
A novel algal bloom risk assessment framework by integrating environmental factors based on explainable machine learning	78
Climate change and dispersion dynamics of the invasive plant species Chromolaena odorata and Lantana camara in parts of the central and eastern India	77
What AIS misses and Acoustics reveal: Monitoring seafloor disturbance and recovery from bottom trawling in the southern Baltic Sea over five years	76
Potato crop disease prediction in Prince Edward Island using machine learning: A decision support approach for farmers	75
Comparing phenocam color indices with phenological observations of black spruce in the boreal forest	73
Benchmarking remote sensing methods to capture plant functional diversity from space	73
Evaluation of Gangetic dolphin habitat suitability under hydroclimatic changes using a coupled hydrological-hydrodynamic approach	73
Estimation of canopy nitrogen nutrient status in lodging maize using unmanned aerial vehicles hyperspectral data	72
A review of acoustic systems for insect monitoring: From recording technologies to species recognition performance	71
Deep learning-based keypoint detection for morphological measurement of termite legs with potential occlusion	71
PAG-MSBNet:Prototype-aware gated multi-scale branch network for open-set crop disease recognition	70
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	70
Low cost, high efficiency: LiDAR place recognition in vineyards with Matryoshka Representation Learning	69
Modeling CO2 fluxes in coastal wetlands of China using explainable sequence-based deep learning	68
The utility of Planetscope spectral data in quantifying above-ground carbon stock in an urban reforested landscape	67
A fine-tuning workflow for CNN-based bat acoustic classification	67
Advancing long-term precipitation pattern forecasting in Atlantic Canada using successive variational mode decomposition, recursive LSTM, and graph-based feature selection	66
Sampling biases across interaction types affect the robustness of ecological multilayer networks	64
Biological-based and remote sensing techniques to link vegetative and reproductive development and assess pollen emission in Mediterranean grasses	64
Evaluation of the monitoring capability of various vegetation indices and mainstream satellite band settings for grassland drought	62
Foundation models for bioacoustics – A comparative review	62
A machine learning framework for modeling long-term forest carbon dynamics under warming and nitrogen enrichment	61
How urban-rural life experiences shape rural landscape preferences: Group differences and nonlinear threshold effects via VR UAV and interpretable machine learning	61
Background-invariant re-identification of dogs from camera-trap videos in non-controlled environments	60
Generation of spatial data on small vessel activities using a novel fisheries participatory geographic information system	60
Spatial modeling tool to assess and rank peri-urban land use in an agricultural region of the Midwestern United States	60
Unraveling the spatiotemporal dynamics and driving mechanisms of soil conservation service flows in the Loess Plateau via XGBoost–SHAP	60
An adaptive method for individual tree segmentation synthesizing canopy cover and competitive mechanism using UAV data	59
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”	59
Overcoming cloud obstruction: Fast forest-damage assessment in post-tropical cyclone optical remote sensing	59
Uncovering environmental implications of historical stewardship of Japanese Moso Bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) forests: a review using a multivariate imputation approach	59
Flood-drought shifts monitoring on arid Xinjiang, China using a novel machine learning based algorithm	58
Long-term phosphorus mass-balance of Lake Erie (Canada-USA) reveals a major contribution of in-lake phosphorus loading	58
Assessing habitat diversity and potential areas of similarity across protected areas globally	58
Impact of climatic changes and anthropogenic activities on ecosystem net primary productivity in India during 2001–2019	58
Temporal dynamics of biodiversity in benthic macroinvertebrate communities from a 140-year sedimentary DNA record and their driving mechanisms	57
Metric learning unveiling disparities: A novel approach to recognize false trigger images in wildlife monitoring	57
CrossKAN: A bivariate cross KAN model for hyperspectral change detection	57
Distance sampling and spatial capture-recapture for estimating density of Northern Bobwhite	56
A geographical traceability method for Lanmaoa asiatica mushrooms from 20 township-level geographical origins by near infrared spectroscopy and ResNet image analysis techniques	56
Spatial and temporal representation of marine fish occurrences available online	56
Comparing the physico-chemistry dynamics of running waters (North-East of France) based on sequence clustering	55
Flexible simulation of animal thermoregulatory behavior in three-dimensional synthetic environments from thermal and optical images	55

An image enhancement approach for coral reef fish detection in underwater videos	55
Towards heat tolerant metagenome functional prediction, coral microbial community composition, and enrichment analysis	55
Using neural style transfer to study the evolution of animal signal design: A case study in an ornamented fish	54
The first inventory of gullies in the Upper Taquari River Basin (Brazil) and its agreement with land use classes	54
Centroid-AME: An open-source software for estimating avian migration trajectories using population centroids movement in the annual cycle	54
The relative impact of co-occurring stressors on the abundance of benthic species examined with three-way correspondence analysis	54
Transferable species distribution modelling: Comparative performance of Generalised Functional Response models	54
The dynamic driving mechanisms of wetland change from an asynchrony-spatiotemporal perspective: A case study in Pearl River Delta, China	53
Adaptive image processing embedding to make the ecological tasks of deep learning more robust on camera traps images	53
Leveraging citizen science to classify and track benthic habitat states: An unsupervised UMAP-HDBSCAN pipeline applied to the global reef life survey dataset	53
A2ANet: Real-time detection of floating marine debris using atrous convolution and channel attention	52
Exploring the optimal model for assessing SOC and TN in Zanthoxylum bungeanum forest on the Loess Plateau using VNIR spectroscopy	52
Impact of topography and climate on post-fire vegetation recovery across different burn severity and land cover types through random forest	52
MobileNet-GRU fusion for optimizing diagnosis of yellow vein mosaic virus	52
Machine learning approach for estimating length–weight relationships in key shark species to support fisheries management	51
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	51
Assessing water quality environmental grades using hyperspectral images and a deep learning model: A case study in Jiangsu, China	50
Quantifying observer variance in expansive monitoring program indicator data with heterogeneous-variance mixed-effects models	50
A workflow to create trait databases from collections of textual taxonomic descriptions	50
Predictive mapping of two endemic oak tree species under climate change scenarios in a semiarid region: Range overlap and implications for conservation	50
Deep learning for automated identification of Vietnamese timber species: A tool for ecological monitoring and conservation	50
Nowhere to go: Potential distribution shifts of a widespread lizard under two climate change scenarios	50
Evaluation of driving effects of carbon storage change in the source of the Yellow River: A perspective with CMIP6 future development scenarios	50
Identification of free-ranging mugger crocodiles by applying deep learning methods on UAV imagery	49
Associations of oxygen availability with eukaryotic plankton assembly and coalescence in river–lake ecotones	49
Remote sensing-based spatiotemporal dynamics of agricultural drought on Prince Edward Island using Google Earth engine	49
Individual tree crown width detection from unmanned aerial vehicle images using a revised local transect method	49
A modeling framework for forest aboveground biomass estimation in mixed forests of the southeastern United States using airborne lidar and PlanetScope data	49
Automated detection of 20 Hz fin whale calls using computer vision techniques	49
Bioclimatic controls on vegetation growth in natural and agro-mosaic montane cloud ecosystems	49
Symbolic encoding of bottlenose dolphin signature whistles: A lightweight method for representation and comparison	47
Machine-learning aiding sustainable Indian Ocean tuna purse seine fishery	47
SOCI-YOLO11n: A deep learning model for identifying invasive freshwater turtles in complex ecological contexts	47
Enhancing palm precision agriculture: An approach based on deep learning and UAVs for efficient palm tree detection	47
Forest-Chat: Adapting vision-language agents for interactive forest change analysis	47
Spatial relationship between ecosystem health and urbanization in coastal mountain city, Qingdao, China	46
Machine learning and GIS-RS-based algorithms for mapping the groundwater potentiality in the Bundelkhand region, India	46
Detection of dense fish schools in sonar imagery with a novel YOLOv11-SAS model	45
YWnet: A convolutional block attention-based fusion deep learning method for complex underwater small target detection	45
Metaweb approaches for understanding complex ecological interactions: A review	45
Optimizing surface water detection for wetland restoration monitoring: A comparative assessment of thresholding techniques on UAV imagery	45
Artificial intelligence for carbon emissions using system of systems theory	45
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity of ecological water level in Poyang Lake, China	45
Automated near real-time monitoring in ecology: Status quo and ways forward	45
Low-disturbance UAV-AI monitoring of the endangered Przewalski's gazelle on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau	45
New generation neurocomputing learning coupled with a hybrid neuro-fuzzy model for quantifying water quality index variable: A case study from Saudi Arabia	45
Optimizing landslide susceptibility mapping using machine learning and geospatial techniques	44
Intercomparison of high spatial resolution LAI remote sensing products at forest sites	44
Arctic diel and circadian acoustic pattern of Orcas, Fin, and Humpback whales revealed by deep learning from two months of continuous recordings	44
High risk water pollution hazards affecting Aveiro coastal lagoon (Portugal) – A habitat risk assessment using InVEST	44
On the importance of integrating convolution features for Indian medicinal plant species classification using hierarchical machine learning approach	44
Predicting long-term environmental acoustic urban patterns using 2-slot short-term measurement and feed-forward artificial neural networks	44
Mapping high-resolution XCO2 concentrations in China from 2015 to 2020 based on spatiotemporal ensemble learning model	43
Assessing Gonipterus defoliation levels using multispectral unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data in Eucalyptus plantations	43
Forecasting the abundance of disease vectors with deep learning	43
Designing water-saving-ecological check dam sites by a system optimization model in a region of the loess plateau, Northwest China	43
SooSim, a landscape model for assessing mire habitat degradation and restoration	43
Mapping spatiotemporal mortality patterns in spruce mountain forests using Sentinel-2 data and environmental factors	43
Multi-camera synchronization and instance tracking for Avian behavior analysis in a floating aviary	42
Commentary on Automatic identification of Chagas disease vectors using data mining and deep learning techniques	42
Comparing socioeconomic vulnerability index and land cover indices: Application of fuzzy TOPSIS model and geographic information system	42
A comparative study of four deep learning algorithms for predicting tree stem radius measured by dendrometer: A case study	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
Monitoring vegetation patterns and their drivers to infer resilience: Automated detection of vegetation and megaherbivores from drone imagery using deep learning	42
Utilizing deep transfer learning to discover changes in landscape patterns in urban wetland parks based on multispectral remote sensing	41
LEAVES: An open-source web-based tool for the scalable annotation and visualisation of large-scale ecoacoustic datasets using cluster analysis	41
Remote sensing-derived land surface temperature trends over South Asia	40
Enhancing rice seed purity recognition accuracy based on optimal feature selection	40
A novel hybrid machine learning approach for δ13C spatial prediction in polish hard-water lakes	40
A simulation based approach for enhancing automatic detection of cicada songs in challenging chorus conditions	40
Working with GNSS collar data. The importance of pre-analysis when setting the sampling interval	40
Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics and drivers of forest ecosystems in southern Europe with explainable machine learning	40
Advancing invasive species monitoring: A free tool for detecting invasive cane toads using continental-scale data	40
Predicting invasive species distributions using incremental ensemble-based pseudo-labeling	40
YOLO_MRC: A fast and lightweight model for real-time detection and individual counting of Tephritidae pests	39
Real-time measurement of individual tree structure parameters based on augmented reality in an urban environment	39
Balancing urban expansion with ecological integrity: An ESP framework for rapidly urbanizing small and medium-sized cities, with insights from Suizhou, China	39
Cross-scale observation of riparian vegetation: Testing the potential of satellite-UAV-Field integrated observations for large-scale herbaceous species	39
Predictive modeling of regional carbon storage dynamics in response to land use/land cover changes: An InVEST-based analysis	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
Responses of soil respiration and its sensitivities to temperature and precipitation: A meta-analysis	38
Automated note annotation after bioacoustic classification: Unsupervised clustering of extracted acoustic features improves detection of a cryptic owl	38
Vegetation coverage precisely extracting and driving factors analysis in drylands	38
Individual-based modelling of small pelagic fish in the Adriatic Sea: integrating stock assessments, ecophysiology of fish, and environmental forcings	38
Multi-decadal temporal reconstruction of Sentinel-3 OLCI-based vegetation products with multi-output Gaussian process regression	38
UAV-RGB-image-based aboveground biomass equation for planted forest in semi-arid Inner Mongolia, China	38
A new approach to estimate total nitrogen concentration in a seasonal lake based on multi-source data methodology	38
Combining environmental DNA and remote sensing variables to model fish biodiversity in tropical river ecosystems	38
Efficient wildlife monitoring: Deep learning-based detection and counting of green turtles in coastal areas	38
An automated approach for counting ants in densely populated images and gaining insight into ant foraging behavior	38
Evaluating the temporal patterns of land use and precipitation under desertification in the semi-arid region of Brazil	38
Using 360-degree panoramic technology to explore the mechanisms underlying the influence of landscape features on visual landscape quality in traditional villages	38
From LSA to LLM: Evolution and limitations of topic modelling methods for biodiversity conservation	38
A high resolution spatial modelling framework for landscape-level, strategic conservation planning	38
Winter tree and terrain shadow correction reveals land cover mapping errors in Sentinel-2 satellite imagery	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
Assessing the impact of gold mining on forest cover in the Surinamese Amazon from 1997 to 2019: A semi-automated satellite-based approach	37
An explainable ensemble machine-learning framework for short-term forecasting of algal blooms across contrasting Lake systems	37
A comprehensive evaluation of deep learning approaches for ground-level ozone prediction across different regions	37
Conifer seedling mapping with UAS data and supervised learning in postfire southern Rockies landscapes	36
A stacking ANN ensemble model of ML models for stream water quality prediction of Godavari River Basin, India	36
Three-dimensional graph reconstruction of filamentous structures from z-stack images	36
The Frankenstein species distribution modelling: A composite Bayesian framework accounting for spatio-temporal heterogeneity in ecologically diverse regions	36
Reliable and efficient integration of AI into camera traps for smart wildlife monitoring based on continual learning	36
SALMA: A machine learning tool for precise leaf morphology measurements	36
Machine learning-enhanced ecohydrological modelling of monthly-scale oasis dynamics driven by ecological water diversion: A case study of the Qingtu Oasis, China	36
Analyzing wildfire patterns and climate interactions in Campania, Italy: A multi-sensor remote sensing study	36
Advancing provenance assignment using machine learning and time series analysis of chemical chronologies in archival tissues	36
Divergent dynamics of surface water patterns and structures in Europe's coastal-zone basins	36
Integrating AI technologies and citizen science to fast-track small and ectothermic animal monitoring	35
Drone imagery and deep learning for mapping the density of wild Pacific oysters to manage their expansion into protected areas	35
Rookognise: Acoustic detection and identification of individual rooks in field recordings using multi-task neural networks	35
Stochastic network to model the global spreading of respiratory diseases: From SARS-CoV-2 to pathogen X pandemic	35
The Atlantic forest is a potentially climatic suitable habitat for four Neotropical Myrtaceae species through time	35
Bacterial community characterization by deep learning aided image analysis in soil chips	35
Influences of vegetation, model, and data parameters on forest aboveground biomass assessment using an area-based approach	35
Simplifying the calibration of ecological models by using the parameter estimation tool (PEST): The Curonian Lagoon case	35
Reconstructing coastal ponds functional classification: Integration of multi-feature remote sensing	35
Demonstrating the relevance of spatial-functional statistical analysis in marine ecological studies: The case of environmental variations in micronektonic layers	34
Evaluating the efficiency of future crop pattern modelling using the CLUE-S approach in an agricultural plain	34
Enhancing mango disease diagnosis through eco-informatics: A deep learning approach	34
Embracing asymmetry in nature: How to account for skewness in ecological data	34
Comparison of patch-based and synoptic connectivity algorithms with graph theory metrics. A case study in Reggio Calabria metropolitan area (South Italy)	34
Winter wheat yield prediction in the conterminous United States using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence data and XGBoost and random forest algorithm	34
The influence of biophysical characteristics on elephant space use in an African savanna	34
Estimating net primary productivity of semi-arid Crimean pine stands using biogeochemical modelling, remote sensing, and machine learning	34
Species misidentification affects biodiversity metrics: Dealing with this issue using the new R package naturaList	34
VCPNET: A new dataset to benchmark vegetation carbon phenology metrics	34
HydroEcoLSTM: A Python package with graphical user interface for hydro-ecological modeling with long short-term memory neural network	34
Balancing signature variance between local and global minima/maxima: Restricted maximum likelihood (REML) classification and the search for plagioclimax	33
Predicting the impact of future climate changes and range-shifts of Indian hornbills (family: Bucerotidae)	33
Best practices for AI-based image analysis applications in aquatic sciences: The iMagine case study	33
An integrated system for the acoustic monitoring of goat farms	33
Assessing the distribution of nocturnal chlorophyll-a in the Northwest Pacific Ocean using ocean color and fishery echosounder acoustic data	33
Evaluating machine leaning algorithms for accuracy, stability, and among-predictors discriminability in modeling species-richness across ten datasets	33
Coastal waterbird eco-habitat stability assessment in Zhangjiangkou Mangrove National Nature Reserve Based on habitat function-coordination coupling	33
Mapping global orchid assemblages with deep learning provides novel conservation insights	33
Benchmarking wild bird detection in complex forest scenes	33
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	33
Assessment of land surface vulnerability using time-series geospatial datasets	32
Potential of Sentinel-2 time series in capturing boreal forest structural diversity	32
Zonation-based prioritization of vegetation conservation for terminal lakes in drylands	32
Global climatic impact on the sea kraits living near the tectonic plate boundaries	32
Improving AI performance in wildlife monitoring through species and environment-specific training: A case study on desert Bighorn sheep	32
Exploring the trade-offs between spatial and spectral resolution in mapping invasive alien trees	32
Parallel xLSTM-informer model for long-term dissolved oxygen prediction using STL decomposition and Bayesian optimization	32
Multi-scale neural networks enhance species distribution modelling across predictors and taxonomic groups	31
Change in cereal production caused by climate change in Malaysia	31
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	31
TreeLearn: A deep learning method for segmenting individual trees from ground-based LiDAR forest point clouds	31
Predictive performance of machine learning model with varying sampling designs, sample sizes, and spatial extents	31
Application and field validation of machine and deep learning models for predicting nitrogen losses in rice paddies with fertilizer deep-placement	31
Vision transformer meets convolutional neural network for plant disease classification	31
Feature embeddings from the BirdNET algorithm provide insights into avian ecology	31
Bioclimatic similarity between species locations and their environment revealed by dimensionality reduction analysis	30
Impacts of global climate change on the spatial range of insects distributed across the Pacific Ocean	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
Hierarchical classification of insects with multitask learning and anomaly detection	30
Remote sensing of flowers	30
Modeling and formal analysis of meta-ecosystems with dynamic structure using graph transformation	30
Refining landsat-based annual NDVImax estimation using shape model fitting and phenological metrics	30
A systematic review on hyperspectral imaging technology with a machine and deep learning methodology for agricultural applications	30
Post-fire vegetation dynamic patterns and drivers in Greater Hinggan Mountains: Insights from long-term remote sensing data analysis	30
Fin whale pulse detection with deep neural networks	30
Prototyping a system for detection and notification of damage or theft in beehives	30
Spatiotemporal evolution analysis of human disturbances on giant panda: A new approach to study cumulative influences with large spatial scales	30
Application of machine learning approaches for land cover monitoring in northern Cameroon	30
Spatiotemporal evolution for early warning of ecological carrying capacity during the urbanization process in the Dongting Lake area, China	30
Variability and ecological relevance of alternative group structures in food webs	30
Reference architecture design for developing data management systems in smart farming	30
Improving daily reference evapotranspiration forecasts: Designing AI-enabled recurrent neural networks based long short-term memory	30
Deep learning-based analysis of insect life stages using a repurposed dataset	29
Revealing forest structural "fingerprints": An integration of LiDAR and deep learning uncovers topographical influences on Central Amazon forests	29
Influences of noise on paddy chlorophyll mapping and associated uncertainty across heterogeneous landscapes using Sentinel-2 and hybrid models	29