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Automated Discovery of Food Webs from Ecological Data Using Logic-Based Machine Learning

<28>Within Ecology the network of predation relations between species is known as a Food Web. This is key to understanding the effects of agriculture on the environment. However, detailed Food Webs are rare in the Environmental literature since each link requires intensive field studies. This paper is the first demonstration that a detailed Food Web can be automatically extracted from Large-Scale Farm study data using a machine learning algorithm, and it correlates strongly with links suggested within the literature. The research was conducted at Syngenta University Innovation Centre Imperial College and the three industrial co-authors are from Syngenta.