Using fuzzy logic to compare species distribution models developed on the basis of expert knowledge and sampling records : Expert knowledge versus sampling in species distribution modelling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Experts use knowledge to infer the distribution of species based on fuzzy logical assumptions about the relationship between species and the environment. Thus, expert knowledge is amenable to fuzzy logic modelling, which give to propositions a continuous truth value between 0 and 1. In species distribution modelling, fuzzy logic may also be used to model, from a number of records, the degree to which conditions are favourable to the occurrence of a species. Therefore, fuzzy logic operations can be used to compare and combine models based on expert knowledge and species records. Here, we applied fuzzy logic modelling to the distribution of amphibians in Uruguay as inferred from expert knowledge and from observed records to infer favourable locations, with favourability be

SUBMITTER: Romero D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10702020 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature