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1/ Todays #rewildingscience paper examines how climate change interacts with other disturbances to alter functioning ecosystems in the Serengeti. It shows the joined up nature of ecosystems & trophic levels & challenges conservation to think at a landscape scale. #rewilding 
2/ The paper focuses on 4 principles (1) interaction of environmental change with human-modified habitat; (2) slow change in the community; (3) fast change: rapid community shifts and stable states; and (4) other disturbances that override environmental change
3/ The study used road transects between 1997 and 2011 split between savanna and agricultural habitats along with historic literature to sample bird communities and monitored tree densities alongside this to investigate the relationship between tree stem density & bird diversity
We’re offering some #rewildingscience for the weekend today in the shape of @Nature_Based 2013 paper which seeks to answer to the question are wild boar effective ecosystem engineers? #rewilding 1/
An #ecosystemengineer is defined by the paper as species which create, modify, maintain, or destroy habitats for other species and that have a strong effect on ecosystem functioning. These are useful species in habitat management, but their impacts need to be understood. 2/
The paper is focused on the Scottish highlands where, as it points out, there has been extensive habitat destruction and species expirations over the past millennium. With data collected within a 125ha fenced area of the Alladale Wilderness Reserve. 3/
As part of my resolutions for 2019, I want to think more critically about the papers I'm reading. I'll start with "When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts" (arxiv.org/abs/1705.08807).
#AI #predictions #paperreview
#AI #predictions #paperreview
The paper "When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts" analyses predictions about progress in AI from researchers who published at the 2015 NIPS and ICML conferences. Only a quick survey was used to gather the data.
arxiv.org/abs/1705.08807
arxiv.org/abs/1705.08807
A quick survey does not evoke thoughtful forecasts. It provokes fast thinking and sampling from intuition. Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking fast and slow" provides ample examples of how fast thinking is skewed by bias.
amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Fast-…
amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Fast-…
