Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Species Distribution Modeling
in the Amazon
Abstract
Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) is widely used by ecologists to
monitor biodiversity and manage wildlife. In the last decades,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques became
popular and were successfully applied for different tasks, including
SDM. The objective of this article was to evaluate Machine Learning
models for Species Distribution Modeling in the Amazon Basin region near
Manaus (AM), based on meteorological and aerosol data collected by the
GoAmazon 2014/15 project. The techniques were evaluated regarding their
accuracy and the Decision Tree Classifier and the Maximum Entropy Model
obtained good predictive performances.