Spatially-explicit forecasting of cyanobacteria assemblages in freshwater lakes by multi-objective hybrid evolutionary algorithms

This paper proposes a novel multi-objective hybrid evolutionary algorithm (MOHEA) that allows spatially-explicit modelling of local outbreaks and dispersal of population density. The MOHEA was tested for modelling at once two cyanobacteria populations at one lake site, same population in two different lakes and same population at three different sites of one lake. All experiments with MOHEA utilized water quality time-series and abundances of Anabaena and Cylindrospermopsis monitored in the sub-tropical Lakes Wivenhoe and Somerset in Queensland (Australia) from 1999 to 2010. Results have demonstrated the capacity of MOHEA to determine generic rules that: (1) reveal crucial thresholds for outbreaks of cyanobacteria blooms, and (2) perform spatially-explicit forecasting of timing and magnitudes 7-day-ahead of bloom events.

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