Integrating rapid assessment, variable probability sampling, and machine learning to improve accuracy and consistency in mapping local spatial distribution of plant species richness

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/24:43908619

Result on the web

<a href="https://academic.oup.com/forestry/article-pdf/97/2/282/56918180/cpad041.pdf" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/forestry/article-pdf/97/2/282/56918180/cpad041.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpad041" target="_blank" >10.1093/forestry/cpad041</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Integrating rapid assessment, variable probability sampling, and machine learning to improve accuracy and consistency in mapping local spatial distribution of plant species richness

Original language description

Conserving plant diversity is integral to sustainable forest management. This study aims at diversifying tools to map spatial distribution of species richness. We develop a sampling strategy of using rapid assessments by local communities to gather prior information on species richness distribution to drive census cell selection by sampling with covariate designs. An artificial neural network model is built to predict the spatial patterns. Accuracy and consistency of rapid assessment factors, sample selection methods, and sampling intensity of census cells were tested in a simulation study with seven 25-50-ha census plots in the tropics and subtropics. Results showed that identifying more plant individuals in a rapid assessment improved accuracy and consistency, while transect was comparable to or slightly better than nearest-neighbor assessment, but knowing more species had little effects. Results of sampling with covariate designs depended on covariates. The covariate I-freq, inverse of the frequency of the rapidly assessed species richness strata, was the best choice. List sampling and local pivotal method with I-freq increased accuracy by 0.7%-1.6% and consistency by 7.6%-12.0% for 5% to 20% sampling intensity. This study recommends a rapid assessment method of selecting 20 individuals at every 20-m interval along a transect. Knowing at least half of the species in a forest that are abundant is sufficient. Local pivotal method is recommended at 5% sampling intensity or less. This study presents a methodology to directly involve local communities in probability-based forest resource assessment to support decision-making in forest management.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Forestry

ISSN

0015-752X

e-ISSN

1464-3626

Volume of the periodical

97

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

282-294

UT code for WoS article

001047889300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85187508463