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SUBMITTER: Sonnewald M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7259926 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sonnewald Maike M Dutkiewicz Stephanie S Hill Christopher C Forget Gael G
Science advances 20200529 22
An unsupervised learning method is presented for determining global marine ecological provinces (eco-provinces) from plankton community structure and nutrient flux data. The systematic aggregated eco-province (SAGE) method identifies eco-provinces within a highly nonlinear ecosystem model. To accommodate the non-Gaussian covariance of the data, SAGE uses t-stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) to reduce dimensionality. Over a hundred eco-provinces are identified with the density-based spatial cl ...[more]