There has been an unsettling rise in the river contamination due to the climate change and
anthropogenic activities. Last decades' research has immensely focussed on river basin …

In order to evaluate the ecological influence of hydraulic projects, aquatic habitat suitability
modeling was proposed. Compared with other environmental flow methods, this method, for …

This study aims to apply seven data-driven methods (ie artificial neural networks [ANNs],
classification and regression trees [CARTs], fuzzy habitat suitability models [FHSMs] …

Species distribution models have often been developed based on ecological data. To
develop reliable data-driven models, however, a sound model training and evaluation …

Habitat requirements and spatial distribution of species are essential to biological
conservation and management as well as ecosystems conservation and restoration. For …

The advent of online services, social networks, crowdsourcing, and serious Web games has
promoted the emergence of a novel computation paradigm, where complex tasks are solved …

Expert elicitation is the process of retrieving and quantifying expert knowledge in a particular
domain. Such information is of particular value when the empirical data is expensive, limited …

In Ethiopia, wetland resources play a vital role in the lives of adjacent communities by
helping them to achieve food security and livelihoods. However, many wetlands throughout …

In recent years, fuzzy models have been acknowledged as a suitable approach for species
distribution modelling due to their transparency and their ability to incorporate the ecological …

Paucity of data on rare species is a common problem, preventing the use of most
approaches to model development and evaluation. This study demonstrates how models …