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Spatial distributions of wisents (European bison) Bison bonasus (Linnaeus 1758), were studied in the Bieszczady Mountains (south-eastern Poland) on the basis of telemetric data obtained from two subpopulations: the western – inhabiting the forest districts of Baligród, Komańcza, Cisna and Lesko, and the eastern – dwelling within the districts of Lutowiska, Stuposiany, and in Bieszczadzki National park. Data was collected between 2002-2021. In our study, we propose a novel approach for classifying wisent subpopulations that utilizes machine learning methods and CLC data. For this purpose, the performances of eight algorithms: Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Multilayer Perceptron, Random Forest, Extreme Gradient Boosting, k-Nearest Neighbors and Decision Tree were investigated. The algorithms were compared according to the following indicators: accuracy, Cohen’s-Kappa, precision, recall and F1 score. Their assessment was enhanced through the application of statistical inference (the Friedman test with post-hoc analysis) and SHAP values. The lowest results were achieved by Naive Bayes and Logistic Regression methods (accuracy of 73.69% and 74.43%, respectively), whilst significantly higher results were achieved by eXtreme Gradient Boosting, k-Nearest Neighbors and Decision Tree classifiers, with the classification accuracy exceeding 90% (91.81%, 92.8%, 93.47%, respectively). Based on the results, we conclude that CLC data represents a valuable source of information regarding the affinity of wisents towards different habitat conditions.
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