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Published on: January 13, 2023

Explore the relationship between fish community and environmental factors by machine learning techniques.

Jia-Hao Hu¹, Wen-Ping Tsai², Su-Ting Cheng³

¹Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei, 10617, Taiwan, ROC.

Environmental Research

|February 23, 2020

Summary

Machine learning models accurately predict fish biodiversity by analyzing environmental factors like water quality and flow. This approach aids sustainable river ecosystem management by identifying key variables influencing fish survival.

Keywords:

Adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS)Flow regime Sustainable environmental management Water quality

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Area of Science:

Environmental Science
Ecology
Data Science

Background:

River ecosystems face integrity challenges due to habitat alterations from natural and anthropogenic factors.
Machine learning offers powerful tools for modeling complex environmental systems and analyzing ecological data.
Sustainable riverine ecosystem management requires understanding the intricate relationships between environmental variables and fish communities.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore a machine learning-based approach for linking environmental factors with fish communities.
To achieve sustainable riverine ecosystem management by identifying critical variables influencing fish biodiversity.
To develop a holistic model for maintaining river ecosystem integrity using heterogeneous datasets.

Main Methods:

Collected extensive eco-environmental data (river flow, water quality, species composition) from the Xindian River (2005-2012).
Employed machine learning techniques to extract relationships from complex, heterogeneous datasets.
Utilized Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Gamma Test (GT) for critical variable selection, and Adaptive Network-based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for estimating fish biodiversity via the Shannon Index (SI).

Main Results:

Achieved a correlation greater than 0.75 between ANFIS model estimations and the biodiversity index.
Identified key environmental variables influencing biodiversity: biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), water temperature, total phosphorus (TP), and nitrate-nitrogen (NO₃-N).
Found that lower BOD, higher TP, and favorable flow regimes support fish species survival.

Conclusions:

The proposed machine learning methodology demonstrates robust estimation capacity for fish biodiversity.
The study effectively explores the impact of environmental variables on fish biodiversity, offering insights for management.
Machine learning presents a promising approach for sustainable environmental management and maintaining river ecosystem integrity.