Quantitative ecology, big data and AI

Data gathering in ecology is often laborious but has rapidly gathered pace over the past 10 years with the development of new sensor technologies (mobile phones to satellites), the genomics revolution, and other automated data-gathering technologies. Silwood Park researchers are at the forefront of the field of quantitative ecology, which deciphers the 'big nature data' being produced from around the globe. They are pioneering the development of new mathematical modelling techniques, new ways of interpretating new vast datasets and using developments in artificial intelligence to discover hidden patterns in nature.