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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2024

Using neural ordinary differential equations to predict complex ecological dynamics from population density data.

Jorge Arroyo-Esquivel, Christopher A Klausmeier, Elena Litchman

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Physics-constrained neural ordinary differential equation models to discover and predict microbial community dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jorge Arroyo-EsquivelDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science , Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4399-954X
Christopher A KlausmeierDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science , Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6987-5871
Elena LitchmanDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science , Stanford, CA, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Simple models have been used to describe ecological processes for over a century. However, the complexity of ecological systems makes simple models subject to modelling bias due to simplifying assumptions or unaccounted factors, limiting their predictive power. Neural ordinary differential equations (NODEs) have surged as a machine-learning algorithm that preserves the dynamic nature of the data (Chen

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Models, BiologicalNeural Networks, ComputerAlgorithmsEcosystemPopulation DensityPopulation Dynamicscomplex community dynamicsecological forecastingmachine learningneural ordinary differential equations

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PMID38745459
PMCPMC11285509

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