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SUBMITTER: Schulz HM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5330468 | biostudies-other | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Schulz Hans Martin HM Li Ching-Feng CF Thies Boris B Chang Shih-Chieh SC Bendix Jörg J
PloS one 20170228 2
Up until now montane cloud forest (MCF) in Taiwan has only been mapped for selected areas of vegetation plots. This paper presents the first comprehensive map of MCF distribution for the entire island. For its creation, a Random Forest model was trained with vegetation plots from the National Vegetation Database of Taiwan that were classified as "MCF" or "non-MCF". This model predicted the distribution of MCF from a raster data set of parameters derived from a digital elevation model (DEM), Land ...[more]