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The use of artificial neural networks to predict the presence of small‐bodied fish in a river
Author(s) -
MASTRORILLO SYLVAIN,
LEK SOVAN,
DAUBA FRANCIS,
BELAUD ALAIN
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
freshwater biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.297
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2427
pISSN - 0046-5070
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2427.1997.00209.x
Subject(s) - minnow , phoxinus , electrofishing , cyprinidae , biology , pimephales promelas , fish <actinopterygii> , artificial neural network , fishery , statistics , ecology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science
1. Discriminant factorial analysis (DFA) and artificial neural networks (ANN) were used to develop models of presence/absence for three species of small‐bodied fish (minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus , gudgeon, Gobio gobio , and stone loach, Barbatula barbatula ). 2. Fish and ten environmental variables were sampled using point abundance sampling by electrofishing in the Ariège River (France) at 464 sampling points. 3. Using DFA, the percentage of correct assignments, expressed as the percentage of individuals correctly classified over the total number of examined individuals, was 62.5% for stone loach, 66.6% for gudgeon and 78% for minnow. With back‐propagation of ANN, the recognition performance obtained after 500 iterations was: 82.1% for stone loach, 87.7% for gudgeon and 90.1% for minnow. 4. The better predictive performance of the artificial neural networks holds promise for other situations with non‐linearly related variables.