Learning the syntax of plant assemblages.

ABSTRACT: To address the urgent biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to understand the nature of plant assemblages. The distribution of plant species is shaped not only by their broad environmental requirements but also by micro-environmental conditions, dispersal limitations, and direct and indirect species interactions. While predicting species composition and habitat type is essential for conservation and restoration purposes, it remains challenging. In this study, we propose an approach inspired by advances in large language models to learn the 'syntax' of abundance-ordered plant species sequences in communities. Our method, which captures latent associations between species across diverse ecosystems, can be fine-tuned for diverse tasks. In particular, we show that our methodology is able to outpe

SUBMITTER: Leblanc C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12537494 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature