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manuscript for Ecology Letters
The
role of large pre-trained models in ecology and biodiversity
conservation: Opportunities and Challenges
Hideyuki Doi1,*,†, Takeshi
Osawa2,*,†, and Narumasa
Tsutsumida3,*,†
1 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University,
Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan
2 Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences,
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa 1-1, Hachiouji, Tokyo,
192-0397, Japan
3 Graduate School of Science & Engineering, Saitama
University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura ward, Saitama City, Saitama,
338-8570, Japan
† These authors equally contributed to this study and are ordered
alphabetically.
*Corresponding authors:
Hideyuki Doi, hideyuki.doi@icloud.com
Takeshi Osawa, arosawa@gmail.com
Narumasa Tsutsumida, rsnaru.jp@gmail.com
Authorship statement
All authors contributed to the conceptualization of this viewpoint. HD
wrote the first draft. all authors contributed to writing, review, and
editing.
A data statement
We did not use any data in this Viewpoint paper.
Short running title
LPMs in ecology and conservation
Keywords
artificial intelligence, modeling, digital data, public opinion and
sentiment, remote sensing, biodiversity
Type of article: Viewpoint
Number of words in abstract: 100
Number of words in main text: 2041
Number of cited references: 25
Number of figures: 1
Number of tables: 0