Journal
FORESTS
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/f12020218
Keywords
MaxEnt; revegetation; habitat suitability; the Near-Nature restoration; prioritizr
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [41977077, 41671289]
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Selecting optimal revegetation patterns and filtering priority areas can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of revegetation planning, particularly in areas with severe vegetation damage. Near-Nature restoration focuses on natural ideas to guide degraded ecosystems to reorganize and achieve sustainable restoration. Results from this study suggest that shrubs and herbaceous plant species in parts of the Loess Plateau should be considered as pioneer plants in future revegetation plans, which can be guided by the mapping of priority areas based on the richness of potential native species.
Selecting optimal revegetation patterns and filtering priority areas can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of revegetation planning, particularly in areas with severe vegetation damage. However, few people include optimal revegetation patterns and priority restoration areas into revegetation plans. The Near-Nature restoration pays attention to based on nature ideas, guiding the degraded ecosystems to reorganize and achieving sustainable restoration through self-regulation. In this study, we conducted a field survey of the native vegetation communities in the Yanhe River catchment, and the data obtained were used to construct the potential distribution suitability of the habitat and screen the priority areas through the combination of MaxEnt and prioritizr models. We drew a heat map of species richness by simulating the potential distribution of 60 native species. The results showed that the potentially suitable habitats for forest cover were distributed in the southern part of the Yanhe River catchment; the potentially suitable habitats for herbaceous plant species were located in the center and the northwest parts of the study area; the potentially suitable habitats for shrub plant species in this area were larger than that of the forest, and herbaceous plants species were distributed in many zones of the study area. This study demonstrated that shrubs and herbaceous plant species in parts of the Loess Plateau should be considered as the pioneer plants of revegetation in future revegetation plans. Moreover, we also mapped the priority area of the Near-Nature restoration based on the richness of the potential native species. The procedure followed in this study could provide guidance for revegetation planning and manual management in the regions where vegetation damage occurs.
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