A machine learning approach to study plant functional trait divergence
Sambadi Majumder,
Chase M. Mason
Abstract:PremisePlant functional traits are often used to describe the spectra of ecological strategies used by different species. Here, we demonstrate a machine learning approach for identifying the traits that contribute most to interspecific phenotypic divergence in a multivariate trait space.MethodsDescriptive and predictive machine learning approaches were applied to trait data for the genus Helianthus, including random forest and gradient boosting machine classifiers and recursive feature elimination. These appro… Show more
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