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Filling persistent tetrapod biodiversity knowledge gaps with artificial intelligence
August 19, 2024
Countless species and their basic traits are unknown to us, making us ignorant about both their existence and potential relevance. In a recent study published in PLOS Biology, our team assessed and set out to close some of these gaps by compiling thousands of data sources on bird, mammal, amphibian, and reptile species traits and using machine learning to predict missing information.
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