Artificial intelligence systems have discovered that the striped dolphin, the bottlenose dolphin and the Risso’s dolphin are the most widespread cetacean species in the northern Ionian Sea. It is one of the results of the Italian research published in the Scientific Reports magazine and conducted by the Institute of industrial systems and technologies for advanced manufacturing of the National Research Council (Cnr-Stiima) of Bari with the Jonian Dolphin Conservation association, Fondazione Centro Euro- on climate change (Cmcc and the Universities of Bari and Basilicata.
Artificial Intelligence techniques have been trained to observe cetaceans in the Gulf of Taranto with data from the European Eu Copernicus Marine Service programme; sighting data collected over 10 years in the northern Ionian by the Jonian Dolphin Conservation were also used in the research.
For Rosalia Camiseta, an expert in artificial intelligence from the Cnr-Stiima, assessing the conservation status of these species is “strategic for setting up effective sustainable management plans for the sea resource and, at the same time, for the conservation of critical areas for fauna marina of Community interest”. To do this, he continues, “we used environmental descriptors provided by the CMCC Foundation and obtained through the use of spatial remote sensing techniques and numerical modeling products of the European Marine Core Service, which provide a vast range of information in relation to the data collected on the environment in which dolphins live, for the first time investigated and presented in a scientific study”.
For Roberto Carlucci, of the University of Bari, “artificial intelligences have highlighted that the concentration of inorganic nutrients, such as nitrates, phytoplankton, temperature and salinity, are the environmental variables that most influence the distribution and abundance of the cetaceans studied. In fact, as evidenced by the analyzes conducted by ecologists of the Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and the Environment of the University of Bari, these specific environmental parameters of the marine habitat are directly linked to primary production and, therefore, in the abundant presence of prey”.
Source: Ansa
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