From objective discovery to prediction of global ocean eco-provinces: A pathway for trustworthy learning
Marine ecosystems are increasingly impacted by climate change, necessitating tools to identify and predict spatial habitat information. To build such tools, ecological marine provinces, "eco-provinces", ecologically meaningful regions in the global ocean can be used. We use unsupervised machine learning (ML) to identify eco-provinces with corresponding uncertainty measures based on output of a global simulation of phytoplankton functional types. Our work aims to create a proof of concept to predict eco-provinces based on satellite ocean color data. To do so, we develop a hierarchy of explainable dense ensemble networks to infer how well the eco-provinces can be detected from modeled ocean...
| Authors | Makayla McDevitt, Maike Sonnewald, Stephanie Dutkiewicz |
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| Primary category | q-bio.PE |
| Published | 19 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 19 August 2026 |
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