Topic · Ecological Modeling · Environmental Science

Species Distribution and Climate Change

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Ecology·Ecological InformaticsPeer-reviewed·Mar 17, 2026
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Large language models possess some ecologicalknowledge, but how much?
Filip Dorm, Joseph W. Millard, Drew W. Purves…+1 more author·Oisin Mac Aodha
Benchmarking GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro across five closed-book ecological tasks shows solid coarse species presence and trait recall but poor fine-scale range mapping and threat classification.
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multiple species·large language model
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Ecology·EcographyPeer-reviewed·Jan 21, 2026
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Flexible Methods for Species Distribution Modeling with Small Samples
Brian Maitner, Robert L. Richards, Ben Carlson…+1 more author·Cory Merow
For species with 20 or fewer occurrence records, 24 of 31 species distribution models had AUC distributions not significantly different from Maxnet's; vote-counting ensembles give upper and lower range bounds.
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multiple species·plant (other)
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