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    • Environmental science
    • Machine learning applications

    Background:

    • Ecosystem quality evaluation is subjective, with limited methods addressing inherent human judgment.
    • Expert opinion offers advantages for creating objective, data-driven evaluation systems.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop an expert system for evaluating Australian grassland ecosystem quality.
    • To model perceived grassland quality using expert preference data and site variables.

    Main Methods:

    • An ensemble of bagged regression trees was trained on calibrated expert preference data.
    • Eight site variables were used as inputs to model perceived grassland quality.
    • A scaling approach was employed to calibrate and aggregate expert opinions.

    Main Results:

    • The model accurately predicted grassland quality, aligning with expert evaluations on independent test sites.
    • The system successfully ordered grassland sites from pristine to degraded based on modification levels.
    • Utilizing data from over twenty experts significantly improved model performance.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed expert system provides a reliable tool for assessing grassland ecosystem quality.
    • The approach is applicable to various ecosystems and can aid ecological managers and modelers.
    • Calibrating expert data is crucial for effective aggregation of opinions in ecosystem assessment.