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This paper describes a method to identify so-called ecological traits of species based on the analysis of their biological characteristics. This biological dataset has a complex structure that can be formalized as a fuzzy many-valued context and transformed into a binary context through histogram scaling. The core of the method relied on the construction and interpretation of formal concepts and was used on a 50 species × 124 histogram attributes table. The concepts were analyzed with the help of an hydrobiologist, leading to a set of ecological traits which were inserted in the original context for validation.
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Bertaux, A., Le Ber, F., Braud, A., Trémolières, M. (2009). Identifying Ecological Traits: A Concrete FCA-Based Approach. In: Ferré, S., Rudolph, S. (eds) Formal Concept Analysis. ICFCA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5548. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01815-2_17
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