Information leverage in interconnected ecosystems: Overcoming the curse of dimensionality
Abstract
Ecology concerns the behavior of complex, dynamic, interconnected systems of populations, communities, and ecosystems over time. Yet ecological time series can be relatively short, owing to practical limits on study duration. Ye and Sugihara introduce an analytical approach called multiview embedding, which harnesses the complexity of short, noisy time series that are common in ecology and other disciplines such as economics. Using examples from published data sets, they show how this approach enhances the tractability of complex data from multiple interacting components and offers a way forward in ecological forecasting.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Aug 26, 2016
- Source ID
- 10.1126/science.aag0863
Entities
People
- George Sugihara
- Hao Ye
Organizations
- National Science Foundation
- United States Department of Defense
- University of California, San Diego