Statistical detection of spatial plant patterns under the effect of forest use
The analysis of the consequences of land use (in particular forest use) may be considered as a partial step towards an integrated modelling of a land system. In the paper a forest territory is considered, where a gap-cut is made, and after a given time period the eventual change in the spatial distr...
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| author | López, Inmaculada Standovár, T. Garay, J. Varga, Zoltán Gámez Cámara, Manuel Angel |
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| description | The analysis of the consequences of land use (in particular forest use) may be considered as a partial step towards an integrated modelling of a land system. In the paper a forest territory is considered, where a gap-cut is made, and after a given time period the eventual change in the spatial distribution of undergrowth plants and tree seedlings is to be detected. Floristic data are collected along a line transect. A method for the detection of the change in the plant distributions along the transect is proposed to see whether this occurs at the geometric frontier of the human intervention.
Since in the considered case the distribution of the change-point estimate is not known, as a substitute of its confidence interval, the so-called change-interval is calculated, using an adaptation of the bootstrap method. As an illustration, for a concrete plant species, the maximum likelihood estimation of the change-point and the calculation of the above mentioned change-interval is presented. Finally, the validation of the proposed method against some typical ecological situations is also presented, which provides a justification of the used algorithms. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-49142023-04-12T19:36:18Z Statistical detection of spatial plant patterns under the effect of forest use López, Inmaculada Standovár, T. Garay, J. Varga, Zoltán Gámez Cámara, Manuel Angel Forest use Forest gap Plant patches Edge detection Change-point Change-interval Bootstrap The analysis of the consequences of land use (in particular forest use) may be considered as a partial step towards an integrated modelling of a land system. In the paper a forest territory is considered, where a gap-cut is made, and after a given time period the eventual change in the spatial distribution of undergrowth plants and tree seedlings is to be detected. Floristic data are collected along a line transect. A method for the detection of the change in the plant distributions along the transect is proposed to see whether this occurs at the geometric frontier of the human intervention. Since in the considered case the distribution of the change-point estimate is not known, as a substitute of its confidence interval, the so-called change-interval is calculated, using an adaptation of the bootstrap method. As an illustration, for a concrete plant species, the maximum likelihood estimation of the change-point and the calculation of the above mentioned change-interval is presented. Finally, the validation of the proposed method against some typical ecological situations is also presented, which provides a justification of the used algorithms. 2017-07-13T11:36:15Z 2017-07-13T11:36:15Z 2012 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Preprint of an article published in International Journal of Biomathematics ,5, 2012 [15 pages] https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793524512500544 Copyright© 2017 World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd http://www.worldscientific.com/loi/ijb http://hdl.handle.net/10835/4914 https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793524512500544 en Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| spellingShingle | Forest use Forest gap Plant patches Edge detection Change-point Change-interval Bootstrap López, Inmaculada Standovár, T. Garay, J. Varga, Zoltán Gámez Cámara, Manuel Angel Statistical detection of spatial plant patterns under the effect of forest use |
| title | Statistical detection of spatial plant patterns under the effect of forest use |
| title_full | Statistical detection of spatial plant patterns under the effect of forest use |
| title_fullStr | Statistical detection of spatial plant patterns under the effect of forest use |
| title_full_unstemmed | Statistical detection of spatial plant patterns under the effect of forest use |
| title_short | Statistical detection of spatial plant patterns under the effect of forest use |
| title_sort | statistical detection of spatial plant patterns under the effect of forest use |
| topic | Forest use Forest gap Plant patches Edge detection Change-point Change-interval Bootstrap |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/4914 https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793524512500544 |
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