Table 1. Top 20 most frequent words in each research area classified by text mining and co-word analysis

Research area Top 20 most frequent words
1st Species, landscape, habitat, population, conservation, biodiversity, abundance, disturbance, season, individual, diversity, movement, composition, connectivity, fragmentation, protected area, wildlife, edge, animal, usa
2nd Concentration, deforestation, plant, stand, emission, erosion, pollution, transportation, content, sediment, watershed, treatment, biomass, wood, logging, catchment, tropical forest, load, runoff, harvesting
3rd Random forest, accuracy, technique, algorithm, prediction, performance, dataset, machine, vehicle, classification, image, machine learning, detection, technology, support vector machine, svm, speed, imagery, machine learning model, random forest model
4th Elevation, aspect, rainfall, landslide, auc, logistic regression, curve, county, ndvi, altitude, normalized difference vegetation index, training, validation, sensitivity, rf model, lithology, iran, hazard, susceptibility, roc