This application relates to a method and
system for assessing the health of island ecosystems. The method collects and standardizes multi-source
ecological data from islands to generate an evaluation index matrix and assigns initial static weights. It then constructs a niche network and relationship matrix that characterizes the nonlinear interactions between indicators. Based on this, it calculates a comprehensive niche overlap index among the indicators and constructs an overlap matrix. Subsequently, based on the degree of deviation of each indicator's actual state and utilizing the conflict or synergistic relationships between indicators revealed by the overlap matrix, it dynamically adjusts the initial weights—that is, when an indicator deteriorates, it increases the weight of conflicting indicators and decreases the weight of synergistic indicators. Finally, it uses the dynamic weights to calculate a comprehensive
health index and determine the health level. This overcomes the shortcomings of traditional fixed-weight evaluation methods that cannot reflect the dynamic relationships between indicators within the
ecosystem, achieving a more accurate, sensitive, and ecologically sound assessment of the health status of island ecosystems.