Modeling effects of abiotic factors on the abundances of eight woody species in the Harana forest using artificial networks, random forest, and generalized linear models

Ecological Processes

Table 5 Prediction accuracies of the ANN, RF, and GLM models using MSE, AICs and R²

Species	Prediction models with associated prediction accuracy estimators
	ANN	RF	GLM	ANN	RF	GLM
	MSE		AICs	R² %	R² %	R² %
C. arabica	1.19	0.83	3279	41	58	47
P. falcatus	0.49	0.39	2336	42	32	23
C. macrostachyus	0.52	0.52	2471	8	5	7
C. africana	0.65	0.56	2750	48	48	40
S. guineense	0.38	0.38	2094	7	6	1
O. capensis	0.46	0.49	2448	29	23	21
D. abyssinica	0.54	0.6	2543	29	29	29
F. decipenses	0.44	0.28	2067	59	71	64