Ugyen Thinley, P. Banterng, R. Katawatin, S. Gonkhamdee
{"title":"Spatial Surveillance of Invasion by Alien Species in a Heterogeneous Ecological Landscape","authors":"Ugyen Thinley, P. Banterng, R. Katawatin, S. Gonkhamdee","doi":"10.4018/ijagr.2020040101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thisarticleisanattempttoassesstheinvasionriskfromthemostnoxiousalienplantspeciesusingthe GPSrecordedlocationsandenvironmentalvariables.Theinvasionriskwasmodelledbycombining thethreeecologicalnichemodellingalgorithms-DesktopGARP,OpenmodellerDesktopGARPand Maxentaftervalidatingtheiraccuracies.Theaccuraciesrangedfrommoderatetogoodinallthe algorithms,forallsixspecies.TheresultshowedAgeratinaadenophoraandAgeratumconyzoidesas highlyinvasivespeciesbothintermsofareacoverageandtheecologicaltolerancerangeofthestudy site.Itwasalsoindicativethat,irrespectiveofthespecies,agriculturallandsaremostsusceptibleto invasionamongallothertypesoflandusesinthestudyarea. KEywoRdS AUC, Ecological Niche Modelling, GARP, Invasion Risk, Maxent","PeriodicalId":43062,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4018/ijagr.2020040101","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/ijagr.2020040101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"GEOGRAPHY","Score":null,"Total":0}