Explicitly incorporating spatial dependence in predictive vegetation models in the form of explanatory variables: a Mojave Desert case study |
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Authors: | Jennifer Miller Janet Franklin |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA;(2) Departments of Biology and Geography, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA |
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Abstract: | Predictive vegetation modeling is defined as predicting the distribution of vegetation across a landscape based upon its relationship with environmental factors. These models generally ignore or attempt to remove spatial dependence in the data. When explicitly included in the model, spatial dependence can increase model accuracy. We develop presence/absence models for 11 vegetation alliances in the Mojave Desert with classification trees and generalized linear models, and use geostatistical interpolation to calculate spatial dependence terms used in the models. Results were mixed across models and methods, but in general, the spatial dependence terms more consistently increased model accuracy for widespread alliances. GLMs had higher accuracy in general. |
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Keywords: | Spatial dependence Generalized linear model Classification tree Predictive vegetation models |
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