Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Three Typical Dominant Wetland Vegetation Species’ Response to the Hydrological Gradient in a Ramsar Wetland, Honghe National Nature Reserve, Northeast China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Methods
2.2.1. Sampling Method
2.2.2. Hydrological Data
2.2.3. Conversion of the Hydrological Gradient
2.2.4. Gaussian Logistic Regression Model
2.2.5. Nonlinear Regression and Correlation Test
3. Results
3.1. Species Response to the Hydrological Gradient
3.1.1. Response of Calamagrostis angustifolia to the Hydrological Gradient
3.1.2. Response of Carex lasiocarpa to the Hydrological Gradient
3.1.3. Response of Carex pseudocuraica to the Hydrological Gradient
3.2. Comparison of Probabilities of Occurrence Responses to the Hydrological Gradient
3.3. Simulation of the Spatial Distribution Probability
3.4. The Distribution of the Most Suitable Habitat
3.5. Validation Results
4. Discussion
4.1. Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Wetland Vegetation Species’ Response to the Hydrological Gradient
4.2. Uncertaintyof the Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Wetland Vegetation Species’ Response to the Hydrological Gradient
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Wetland Vegetation Species | Coefficient | Performance Evaluation Criteria (p < 0.05) | ||||||
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c | u | t | F-Statistic | R | R2 | RMSE | SSE | |
Calamagrostis angustifolia | 0.68 | 0.25 | 0.16 | 140.4 | 0.90 | 0.81 | 0.11 | 0.40 |
Carex lasiocarpa | 0.65 | 0.46 | 0.11 | 241.9 | 0.91 | 0.83 | 0.09 | 0.41 |
Carex pseudocuraica | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.14 | 59.88 | 0.76 | 0.58 | 0.10 | 0.42 |
Transect | Wetland Vegetation Species | Performance Evaluation Criteria (p < 0.05) | ||
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R2 | SE | SEM | ||
Transect 1 | Calamagrostis angustifolia | 0.62 | 0.24 | 0.11 |
Carex lasiocarpa | 0.68 | 0.27 | 0.17 | |
Carex pseudocuraica | ||||
Transect 2 | Calamagrostis angustifolia | 0.84 | 0.14 | 0.03 |
Carex lasiocarpa | 0.93 | 0.10 | 0.02 | |
Carex pseudocuraica | 0.97 | 0.09 | 0.02 | |
Transect 3 | Calamagrostis angustifolia | |||
Carex lasiocarpa | 0.71 | 0.19 | 0.07 | |
Carex pseudocuraica | 0.79 | 0.22 | 0.09 |
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Yan, D.; Luan, Z.; Xu, D.; Xue, Y.; Shi, D. Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Three Typical Dominant Wetland Vegetation Species’ Response to the Hydrological Gradient in a Ramsar Wetland, Honghe National Nature Reserve, Northeast China. Water 2020, 12, 2041. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12072041
Yan D, Luan Z, Xu D, Xue Y, Shi D. Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Three Typical Dominant Wetland Vegetation Species’ Response to the Hydrological Gradient in a Ramsar Wetland, Honghe National Nature Reserve, Northeast China. Water. 2020; 12(7):2041. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12072041
Chicago/Turabian StyleYan, Dandan, Zhaoqing Luan, Dandan Xu, Yuanyuan Xue, and Dan Shi. 2020. "Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Three Typical Dominant Wetland Vegetation Species’ Response to the Hydrological Gradient in a Ramsar Wetland, Honghe National Nature Reserve, Northeast China" Water 12, no. 7: 2041. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12072041