用卫星图像自监督学习,实现地下真菌多样性的高精度动态监测。
Below-ground Fungal Biodiversity Can be Monitored Using Self-Supervised Learning Satellite Features
- 通过自监督学习提取卫星特征,预测地下菌群丰富度。
- 模型解释超半数物种丰富度变异,10米级分辨率比传统方法提升一万倍。
- 首次实现大范围、动态的地下生物多样性监测,适合生态保育研究。
菌根真菌对陆地生态系统功能至关重要。然而,由于时间和成本限制,景观尺度下的菌群多样性监测常不可行。当前预测显示,90%的菌根多样性热点未受保护,亟需高效的大范围映射方法。本文表明,将自监督学习(SSL)应用于卫星影像,可有效预测不同环境中的地下丛枝菌根真菌丰富度。模型在覆盖欧亚约12,000个实地样本的数据上,解释了超过一半的物种丰富度方差。由SSL提取的特征成为最核心预测因子,整合了气候、土壤和土地利用数据的绝大部分信息。该方法使空间分辨率较现有技术提升10,000倍,从1公里平均值跃升至10米生境尺度,且系统偏差极小。由于卫星数据具有动态性,首次实现景观尺度下地下生物多样性的时序监测。我们分析英国国家公园林地多年变化趋势,发现古老森林的丛枝菌根多样性可能正以不成比例的速度下降。结果确立了基于卫星的自监督学习特征,为扩展稀疏野外观测、构建连续高分辨率生物多样性图谱提供了可扩展工具,助力监测陆地生态系统的“隐形另一半”。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to terrestrial ecosystem functioning. Yet monitoring their biodiversity at landscape scales is often unfeasible due to time and cost constraints. Current predictions suggest that 90\% of mycorrhizal diversity hotspots remain unprotected, opening questions of how to broadly and effectively map underground fungal communities. Here, we show that self-supervised learning (SSL) applied to satellite imagery can predict below-ground ectomycorrhizal fungal richness across diverse environments. Our models explain over half the variance in species richness across ~12,000 field samples spanning Europe and Asia. SSL-derived features prove to be the single most informative predictor, subsuming the majority of information contained in climate, soil, and land cover datasets. Using this approach, we achieve a 10,000-fold increase in spatial resolution over existing techniques, moving from 1km landscape averages to 10m habitat-scale observations with nearly no systematic bias. As satellite observations are dynamic rather than static, this enables temporal monitoring of below-ground biodiversity at landscape scales for the first time. We analyze multi-year trends in predicted fungal richness across UK National Park woodlands, finding that ancient forests may be losing ectomycorrhizal diversity at disproportionate rates. These results establish SSL satellite features as a scalable tool for extending sparse field observations to continuous, high-resolution biodiversity maps for monitoring the invisible half of terrestrial ecosystems.
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