SUPR
Spatial analysis of biodiversity patterns
Dnr:

NAISS 2024/22-866

Type:

NAISS Small Compute

Principal Investigator:

Adrian Baggström

Affiliation:

Uppsala universitet

Start Date:

2024-07-01

End Date:

2025-02-01

Primary Classification:

10610: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (methods development to be 10203)

Allocation

Abstract

The aim is to develop deep learning biodiversity modelling tools that can in theory predict the expected species diversity of any organism group, given a set of publicly available geospatial data-products. We train the model on biodiversity data of insects derived from a Sweden-wide environmental DNA (eDNA) inventory. By combining this data with spatial information such as temperature, precipitation, elevation, ground cover classification, NDVI, human impact indices etc., we can train a convolutional neural network to predict the expected number of insects at any given location.