PAPER Environmental and socio-economic factors shaping the geography of floristic collections in China
PAPER Environmental and socio-economic factors shaping the geography of floristic collections in China
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DOI:
10.1111/geb.12225
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发表时间:
2014-11
影响因子:
6.4
通讯作者:
Wenjing Yang;K. Ma;H. Kreft
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作者:
Wenjing Yang;K. Ma;H. Kreft
Aim Effortincollectingbiodiversityinformationoftenvariesstronglyinspaceand may be driven by environmental,cultural and socio-economic factors.Understanding the constraints on collecting effort is crucial for identifying potential bias in distributional databases and for making future surveys more efficient. Here we test six competing hypotheses on drivers of geographical variation in collecting effort andidentifythemainfactorsshapingthegeographyof floristiccollectionsinChina. Location China. Methods We used the most comprehensive database of Chinese vascular plant distributions including 4,338,516 county-level occurrences derived from herbarium specimens and literature sources. Explanatory variables were assembled representing six different hypotheses: accessibility, human population density, the ‘botanist effect’, mountains, water availability and conservation priority. Ordinary least-squares models with eigenvector-based spatial filters were applied to investigate their effects on spatial patterns of two different facets of collecting effort, i.e. collection density and inventory incompleteness.