Function approximation and documentation of sampling data using artificial neural networks

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 122, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 185-201

  Zhang, Wenjun ^a   Barrion, Albert ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Documentation; Dunction approximation; Rice invertebrates; Sampling data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; ECOLOGY; EXTRAPOLATION; INTERPOLATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

DOCUMENTATION; FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; RICE INVERTEBRATES; SAMPLING DATA;

BIODIVERSITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIODIVERSITY; INVERTEBRATE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIODIVERSITY; CURVE FITTING; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; RICE; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DOCUMENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVERTEBRATES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ORYZA SATIVA;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33750615221     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9173-6     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Brown, K. S. Jr.: 1991, Conservation of Neotropical insects: Insects as indicators. In: Collins, N. M., Thomas, J. A. (eds.), The Conservation of Insects and Their Habitats. Academic Press, London, pp.349-404.
2. Bunge, J., Fitzpatrick, M.: 1993, Astimating the number of species: a review. Journal of American Statistician Association, 88, 364-373.
3. Cohen, J. E.: 1978, Food webs and niche space. Monographs in Population Biology 11, Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA.
4. Cohen, J. E. et al.: 1993, Improving food webs. Ecology, 74, 252-258.
5. Coleman, B. D., Mares, M. A., Willig, M. R., Hsieh, Y. H.: 1982, Randomness, area, and species richness. Ecology, 63, 1121-1133.
6. Colwell, R. K., Coddington, J. A.: 1994. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London B, 345, 101-108.
7. Gotelli, N. J., Graves, G. R.: 1996, Null Models in Ecology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
8. Hagan, M. T., Demuth, H. B., Beale, M. H.: 1996, Neural Network Design. PWS Publishing Company.
9. Heong, K. L., Aquino, G. B., Barrion, A. T.: 1991, Invertebrate community structures of rice ecosystems in the Philippines. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 81, 407-416.
10. Hurlbert, S. H.: 1971, The conceptAof species diversity: a critique and alternative parameters. Ecology, 52, 577-585.
11. James, F. C., Rathbun, S.: 1981, Rarefaction, relative abundance, and diversity of avian communities. Auk, 98, 785-800.
12. Krebs, C. J.: 1989, Ecological Methodology. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, USA, pp. 1-654.
13. Kremen, C., Colwell, R. K., Erwin, T. L., Murphy, D. D.: 1993, Invertebrate assemblges: Their use as indicators in conservation planning. Conservation Biology, 7, 796-808.
14. Mathworks, 2002. Neural Network Toolbox, MATLAB 6.5.
15. May, R. M.: 1981, Patterns in multi-species communities. In: May, R.M. (ed.) Theoretical Ecology. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MASS., USA, pp. 197-227.
16. Miller, R. J., White, P. S.: 1986, Condiderations for preserve design based on the distribution of rare plants in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. U.S.A. Journal of Environmental Management, 10, 119-124.
17. Miller, R. J., and R. G. Wiegert.: 1989, Documenting completeness, species-area relations, and the species-abundance distribution of a regional flora. Ecology, 1, 16-22.
18. Moreno, C. E., Halffter, G.: 2000, Assessing the completeness of bat biodiversity inventories using species accumulation curves. Journal of Applied Ecology, 37, 149-158.
19. Ooi, P., Shepard, M.: 1994, Predators and parasitoids of rice insect pests. In: Pedigo, L. P., Buntin, G. D. (eds.), Handbook of Sampling Methods for Arthropods in Agriculture. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., USA.
20. Sanders, H. L.: 1968, MariAe benthic diversity: a comparative study. Am. Nat., 102, 243-282.
21. Schoenly, K. G., Cohen, M. B., Barrion, A. T., Zhang, W. J., Gaolach, B., Viajante, V. D.: 2003, Effects of Bacillus thuringiensis on non-target herbivore and natural enemy assemblages in tropical irrigated rice. Environment and Biosafety Research, 3, 181-206.
22. Schoenly, K. G., Cohen, J. E., Heong, K. L., Litsinger, J. A., Aquino, G. B., Barrion, A. T., Arida, G.: 1996, Food web dynamics of irrigated rice fields at five elevations in Luzon, Philippines. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 86, 451-466.
23. Schoenly, K. G., Justo, J. D. Jr., Barrion, A. T., Harris, M. K., Bottrell, D. G.: 1998, Analysis of invertebrate biodiversity in a Philippine farmer's irrigated rice field. Environmental Entomology, 27, 1125-1136.
24. Schoenly, K. G., Zhang, W. J.: 1999, IRRI Biodiversity Software Series. V. RARE, SPPDISS, and SPPANK: Programs for detecting between-sample difference in community structure. IRRI Technical Bulletin No.5. International Rice Research Ins titute, Manila, Philippines, pp. 1-17.
25. Shahid, S. A., Schoenly, K. G., Haskell, N. H., Hall, R. D., Zhang, W. J.: 2003, Carcass enrichment does not alter decay rates or arthropod community structure: A test of the arthropod saturation hypothesis at the anthropology research facility in Knoxville, Tennessee. Journal of Medical Entomology, 4, 559-569.
26. Shannon, C. E., Weaver, W.: 1963, The Mathematical Theory of Communication. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
27. Simberloff, D.: 1972, Properties of the rarefaction diversity measurements. Am. Nat., 196, 414-418.
28. Simberloff, D.: 1978, Rarefaction as a distribution-free method of expressing and estimating diversity. In: Grassle, J. F., Patil, G. P., Smith, W. K., Taillie, C. (eds.), Ecological Diversity in Theory and Practice. International Cooperative Publishing House, Fairland, Md., USA, pp. 159-176.
29. Steele, B. B., Bayn, R. L. Jr., ValGrant, C.: 1984. Environmental monitoring using populations of birds and small mammals: Analysis of sampling effort. Biological Conservation, 30, 157-172.
30. Sutherland, W. J.: 1996, Ecological Census Techniques. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
31. Way, M. J., Heong, K. L.: 1994, The role of biodiversity in the dynamics and management of insect pests of tropical irrigated rice-a review. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 84, 567-587.
32. Zhang, W. J., Schoenly, K. G.: 1999, IRRI Biodiversity Software Series. II. COLLECT1 and COLLECT2: Programs for calculating statistics of collectors' curves. IRRI Technical Bulletin No.2. International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines, pp. 1-15.
33. Zhang, W. J., Schoenly, K. G.: 2001, A randomization test and software to compare ecological communities. International Rice Research Notes, 2, 48-49.
34. Zhang, W. J., Qi, Y. H.: 2002, Functional link artificial neural network and agri-biodiversity analysis. Biodiversity Science, 3, 345-350.
35. Zhang, W. J., Qi, Y. H., Schoenly, K. G.: 2002, Randomization tests and computational software on significance of community biodiversity and evenness. Biodiversity Science, 4, 431-437.
36. Zhang, W. J., Qi, Y. H., Barrion, A. T.: 2004, Neural network approximation of sampling yield-effort curves of rice invertebrates. International Rice Research Notes, 2: 34-36.
37. Zhang, W. J., Schoenly, K. G.: 2004, Lumping and correlation analyses of invertebrate taxa in tropical irrigated rice field. International Rice Research Notes, 1: 41-43.
38. Zhao, Z. M., Guo, Y. Q.: 1990, Community Ecology: Principles and Methods. Chongqing Branch Press of Science and Technology Literature Press, Chongqing, China, pp. 129-130.