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DOI10.1006/jare.1996.0095
A rapid methodology for vegetation survey in Mexican arid lands
Valverde, PL; Montana, C
来源期刊JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
ISSN0140-1963
出版年1996
卷号34期号:1页码:89-99
英文摘要

The development of rapid and cheap methodologies to gather basic information relevant to management planning is a critical task to be addressed in many semi-arid zones of Africa, Asia and Latin America. We present in this paper a case study of a vegetation survey in two areas of the Mexican Chihuahuan Desert using a rapid and cheap methodology which combines the intensive use of available multivariate techniques and cartographic information and that can be easily applied in other arid lands. The first of the two studied areas (La Laguna) is the focus of a development project for agriculture and animal production in marginal rural communities. The second area (Mapimi Bolson) is a conservation area with the status of Biosphere Reserve in the framework of the MAB Programme of UNESCO. Vegetation-environment relationships were studied on a sample of sites using a divisive polythetic classificatory procedure and principal component analysis of the floristic table followed by analyses of variance of axis scores according to environmental factors. Discriminant functions to predict vegetation types on the basis of environmental data that can be easily gathered from cartographic information were then calculated. Validation of the discriminant functions was made with another set of sampled sites. The analysis of both datasets showed that landform is the variable that best explains the variability between vegetation types. The addition of other variables influencing soil water availability such as topography, surface rockiness and soil origin confers a high degree of predictability to the mathematical models describing the relationship between vegetation types and environmental variables. This fact, in rum, allows the construction of discriminant functions that correctly identify nearly 90% of new sites. This level of predictability is obtained using only the first two dimensions of the discriminant space, i.e. most of the variability can be explained with only two discriminant functions. This combination of available techniques of analysis allowing a quick and cheap vegetation cartography could be afforded in many development projects having a modest supply of economic resources and, eventually, i.e. when sufficient resources and expertise are available, the discriminant functions could be integrated in geographical information systems to produce the final cartography. (C) 1996 Academic Press Limited


英文关键词Chihuahuan Desert discriminant functions Mapimi Biosphere Reserve Mexico vegetation-environment survey
类型Article
语种英语
国家MEXICO
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:A1996VK42200008
WOS关键词SONORAN DESERT BAJADAS ; ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS ; CHIHUAHUAN DESERT ; PATTERNS
WOS类目Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/133004
作者单位(1)INST ECOL,XALAPA 91000,VERACRUZ,MEXICO;(2)UNIV AUTONOMA METROPOLITANA IZTAPALAPA,DIV CBS,DEPT BIOL,MEXICO CITY 09340,DF,MEXICO
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Valverde, PL,Montana, C. A rapid methodology for vegetation survey in Mexican arid lands[J],1996,34(1):89-99.
APA Valverde, PL,&Montana, C.(1996).A rapid methodology for vegetation survey in Mexican arid lands.JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS,34(1),89-99.
MLA Valverde, PL,et al."A rapid methodology for vegetation survey in Mexican arid lands".JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS 34.1(1996):89-99.
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