Département Analyse des Systèmes, Evaluation Intégrée et Modélisation

Combler le fossé entre la science des données et la modélisation mécaniste pour acquérir des connaissances sur la composition des communautés

Motivation

La composition des communautés d’organismes vivants dans les écosystèmes dépend de divers facteurs : des espèces présentes dans la région, des conditions environnementales locales et de l’interaction entre les espèces. Différentes méthodes peuvent être utilisées pour prédire la probabilité d'occurrence de différentes espèces : soit elles sont basées sur la formulation mathématique des connaissances existantes sur les mécanismes qui influencent l'apparition des espèces, soit elles se basent sur l'analyse de données statistiques. De plus, il existe des méthodes d'apprentissage automatique (machine learning), avec lesquelles il est plus difficile de comprendre les relations avec les facteurs environnementaux. Ces trois méthodes présentent des avantages et des inconvénients, mais elles ont rarement été utilisées ensemble car elles diffèrent dans leurs exigences en matière de données et dans l'effort de calcul requis.

Contenu et objectif du projet de recherche

Dans ce projet, des modèles mécanistes, des modèles statistiques et des méthodes de machine learning seront appliqués pour améliorer notre connaissance des effets environnementaux sur les macroinvertébrés dans les cours d'eau, afin qu'à l'avenir nous puissions mieux prévoir quelles espèces apparaissent dans quelles conditions environnementales. Nous utiliserons les connaissances acquises pour développer un modèle aussi simple et efficace que possible, incluant les mécanismes les plus importants et offrant une prédiction optimale. Un autre objectif est d'utiliser les simulations par ordinateur pour identifier les caractéristiques des communautés de macroinvertebrés les plus sensibles à des futurs changements des conditions environnementales.

Contexte scientifique et sociétal du projet de recherche

Nos travaux apporteront de nouvelles connaissances sur la prédiction de la composition des communautés qui pourront contribuer à la gestion des écosystèmes aquatiques dans la perspective des changements environnementaux à venir.

Publications

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         cticides index; climate change; water quality assessment
' (132 chars) description => protected'Increasing temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change are leading t
         o changes in the composition of local communities across biomes. This has im
         plications for ecological assessment methods that rely on macroinvertebrates
          as bioindicators of water quality. To investigate the influence of changing
          water temperature on these assessment methods, we analysed macroinvertebrat
         e data from Swiss national monitoring programs. We used a species distributi
         on model to simulate temperature change effects on macroinvertebrate communi
         ties and estimated the resulting changes on three biological indices commonl
         y used in Switzerland, namely the species richness of Ephemeroptera, Plecopt
         era and Trichoptera (EPT), the Swiss biological (IBCH) index along with its
         components, as well as the species at risk pesticides (SPEAR<sub>pesticides<
         /sub>) index. While results vary by temperature scenario and index, our mode
         l results for the most realistic water temperature increase scenario of + 
         2 °C across most sites in Switzerland suggest no, or only a minor, influen
         ce of temperature (not accounting for other hydrological changes). Our model
          projection predicted only a small increase in the probability of occurrence
          for 70 % of the studied families. The sensitivity to temperature as captur
         ed in our model is generally not very high and varies among the biological i
         ndices: on average across all sites, a + 2 °C increase in temperature re
         sulted in a 7 % increase in EPT species richness, a 4 % increase in the IB
         CH index, and a less than 1 % increase in the SPEAR<sub>pesticides</sub> in
         dex. Our study suggests the robustness of these biological indices to modera
         te warming and points towards the usefulness of these biological indices for
          the next few decades as tools for water quality assessment. Despite some li
         mitations of statistical species distribution models (e.g., not accounting f
         or dispersal limitation or biotic interactions, predictive performance varyi
         ng by taxon), the study ...
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         rth,&nbsp;N.
' (88 chars) title => protected'A comparison of machine learning and statistical species distribution models
         : Quantifying overfitting supports model interpretation
' (131 chars) journal => protected'Ecological Modelling' (20 chars) year => protected2023 (integer) volume => protected481 (integer) issue => protected'' (0 chars) startpage => protected'110353 (11 pp.)' (15 chars) otherpage => protected'' (0 chars) categories => protected'species distribution model; statistical models; interpretable machine learni
         ng; model complexity; freshwater macroinvertebrates
' (127 chars) description => protected'Species distribution models are commonly applied to predict species response
         s to environmental conditions. A wide variety of models with different prope
         rties exist that vary in complexity, which affects their predictive performa
         nce and interpretability. Machine learning algorithms are increasingly used
         because they are capable to capture complex relationships and are often bett
         er in prediction. However, to inform environmental management, it is importa
         nt that a model predicts well for the right reasons. It remains a challenge
         to select a model with a reasonable level of complexity that captures the tr
         ue relationship between the response and explanatory variables as good as po
         ssible rather than fitting to the noise in the data.<br />In this study we a
         sk: 1) how much predictive performance can we gain by using increasingly com
         plex models, 2) how does model complexity affect the degree of overfitting,
         and 3) do the inferred responses differ among models and what can we learn f
         rom them? To address these questions, we applied eight models with different
          complexity to predict the probability of occurrence of freshwater macroinve
         rtebrate taxa based on 2729 Swiss monitoring samples. We compared the models
          in terms of predictive performance during cross-validation and for generali
         zation out of the calibration domain ("extrapolation" or transferability). W
         e applied model agnostic tools to shed light on model interpretability.<br /
         >Contrary to our expectation, all models predicted similarly well during cro
         ss-validation, while no model predicted better than the null model during ou
         t-of-domain generalization on average over all taxa. Performance was best fo
         r taxa with intermediate prevalence. More complex models predicted slightly
         better than standard statistical models but were prone to overfitting.<br />
         Overfitting indicates that a model describes not only the signal in the data
          but also part of the noise. This impedes the interpretation of response sha
         pes learned by the model...
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Khaliq, I.; Chollet Ramampiandra, E.; Vorburger, C.; Narwani, A.; Schuwirth, N. (2024) The effect of water temperature changes on biological water quality assessment, Ecological Indicators, 159, 111652 (10 pp.), doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111652, Institutional Repository
Chollet Ramampiandra, E.; Scheidegger, A.; Wydler, J.; Schuwirth, N. (2023) A comparison of machine learning and statistical species distribution models: Quantifying overfitting supports model interpretation, Ecological Modelling, 481, 110353 (11 pp.), doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110353, Institutional Repository

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