Abstract:
Observations of individual organisms (data) can be combined with expert ecological knowledge of species, especially causal knowledge, to model and extract from flower–visiting data useful information about behavioral interactions between insect and plant organisms, such as nectar foraging and pollen transfer. We describe and evaluate a method to elicit and represent such expert causal knowledge of behavioral ecology, and discuss the potential for wider application of this method to the design of knowledge-based systems for knowledge discovery in biodiversity and ecosystem informatics.
Description:
S1 File. Elicitation of expert knowledge. Experts were asked to read an explanation of how a
Bayesian network can be used to represent knowledge, and then answer questions as to the
completeness of the presented model and whether the results of running the Bayesian network
using sample data were reasonable.
