EcologybioRxivPreprint
The cost of data aggregation: spatiotemporal compression obscures causal attribution in biodiversity monitoring
Katarzyna Malinowska, Michał Wawrzynowicz, Katarzyna Markowska…·Lechosław Kuczyński
This study shows that aggregating spatiotemporal biodiversity data reduces causal inference accuracy, with full-resolution models outperforming compressed time series and distribution models.
DOI 10.1101/2025.05.17.654658