Advancing detection and understanding of anomalous ecological change

人类的影响正在将生态系统推向新的异常状态。可靠地检测这些生态异常对于更好地了解生态系统如何随时间变化以及有效管理自然资源至关重要。该项目旨在利用银行欺诈、网络安全和视频监控等复杂领域的技术来推进生态异常检测。项目的预期成果将增进对生物多样性和生态系统变化的模式和驱动因素的了解。可靠地检测复杂生态系统中异常变化的工具将为生态系统管理、保护决策和环境补救提供重大益处。

Human impacts are driving ecosystems into new, anomalous states. Reliably detecting these ecological anomalies is essential to better understand how ecosystems change over time, and effectively manage natural resources. This project aims to advance ecological anomaly detection using techniques from complex fields such as banking fraud, cybersecurity and video surveillance. Expected project outcomes will improve understanding of patterns and drivers of both biodiversity and ecosystem change. Tools to reliably detect anomalous changes in complex ecological systems will provide significant benefits to ecosystem management, conservation decision-making and environmental remediation.