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Evaluation and prediction of ecological suitability of medicinal plant American ginseng ( panax quinquefolius )
- Source :
- Chinese Herbal Medicines. 10:80-85
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Objective American ginseng is a medicinal plant with large market demands, however, its producing areas are shrinking because of the continuous cropping obstacles in China. Therefore, it is urgent to establish a suitable model to determine the new producing areas. Here we evaluated and predicted the suitable areas of American ginseng using the maximum entropy model (MaxEnt). Methods Based on the 37 environmental variables over thirty years from 1970 to 2000 and 226 global distribution points of American ginseng, MaxEnt was used to determine the global ecological suitable areas for American ginseng. The Receiver Operating Curve (ROC) was used to evaluate the model prediction accuracy. Meanwhile, an innovative ecological variable, the precipitation–temperature ratio, was established to indicate the climate characteristic in the American ginseng suitable areas based on the monthly precipitation and temperature. Results The potential ecological suitable areas of American ginseng were primarily in Appalachian Mountain in America and Changbai Mountain in China, about in the range of 35°N–50°N, 60°W–120°W and 35°N–50°N, 110°E–145°E, respectively, including the United States, Canada, China, North Korea, South Korea, Russia and Japan. South Korea and Japan were the potential producing regions. The precipitation–temperature ratios were stable at (0.22, 0.56) of the vigorous growth period (April–October) in the best suitable areas of American ginseng, serving as characteristic parameters to optimize the prediction model. The model showed that the common soil parameters were pH 4.5–7.2, Base Saturation (BS) above 80%, Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) 10–20 cmol/kg, organic carbon (OC) Conclusion An optimized MaxEnt model was established to predict the producing area for American ginseng that needed to be validated by a field test.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Pharmacology
biology
Ecology
Range (biology)
Model prediction
Continuous cropping
biology.organism_classification
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Soil characteristics
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Complementary and alternative medicine
Global distribution
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Environmental science
Pharmacology (medical)
Soil parameters
American ginseng
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Details
- ISSN :
- 16746384
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Chinese Herbal Medicines
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........73fe620612195f7f49d3d9f129fcd997