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Frontiers of Forestry in China

ISSN 1673-3517

ISSN 1673-3630(Online)

CN 11-5728/S

Front. For. China    0, Vol. Issue () : 148-157    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11461-008-0033-8
Mapping vegetation suitability in coarse sandy hill catchment areas of the Loess Plateau
WEN Zhongming1, HE Xiaohui1, JIAO Feng1, R. McVICAR Tim2, LI Lingtao2, G. VAN NIEL Tom3
1.Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources; 2.School of Environment and Water Conservancy, Zhengzhou University; 3.CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1666, 2601
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Abstract Vegetation suitability mapping is important for the selection of species for implementing the re-vegetation program in the coarse sandy hill catchment areas of the Loess Plateau, China. We introduce a Boolean model, which uses a thin plate smoothing spline interpolation method to model the distribution of precipitation and temperature and analyze the suitability of 38 species using GIS techniques considering the requirement of these species for environmental conditions. Then we overlay a single suitability map of these 38 species to obtain a species frequency map for a specific site. In our study, we mean with ‘high frequency’ a high suitability of a site for re-vegetation. The results show that we can model the spatial changes of vegetation suitability with a combination of topographic analyses based on DEM and GIS functions. We also demonstrate these spatial changes on the screen using Visual Basic language and GIS functions, which will help decision makers to have a clear view of species and site suitability changes over large areas. Although more powerful models, such as GLM and GAM, were not used due to data limitation, our methods can still provide some relevant insights for similar studies.
Issue Date: 05 June 2008
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HE Xiaohui,WEN Zhongming,JIAO Feng, et al. Mapping vegetation suitability in coarse sandy hill catchment areas of the Loess Plateau[J]. Front. For. China, 0, (): 148-157.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/ffc/EN/Y0/V/I/148
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