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The relationship between two soil arthropod communities (Coleoptera and Isopoda) in organic and conventional fields was investigated.
Soil arthropods were sampled by pitfall traps, and fuzzy set theory and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) were used
for their classification. The study was conducted in: (1) two organic and two conventional vineyards, (2) two organic and
two conventional olive groves, and (3) one organic rotation system that involved maize and one conventional maize field. The
species composition (three main fuzzy groups) was affected by the crop species and not by the farming system. The CCA placed
the rare and unique taxa of soil arthropods at the edges of the diagram and grouped most of them together in relation to soil
organic matter and Ca. The same analysis grouped all olive groves and related them to soil organic matter, all vineyards and
related them to soil P and, finally, all maize fields and related them to soil N. 相似文献
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Jongseong Ryu Thomas M. Leschine Jungho Nam Won Keun Chang Karen Dyson 《Journal of environmental management》2011
This report proposes a method for assessing resilience-building components in coastal social–ecological systems. Using the proposed model, the preferences of experts in Masan Bay (South Korea) and Puget Sound (USA) are compared. A total of 30 management objectives were determined and used to build a hierarchic tree designed using the principles of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Surveys were performed with 35 Puget Sound experts using face-to-face interviews and with 28 Masan Bay experts by mail. The results demonstrate that the legal objective, which enables legislation, was the highest preferred component in both regions. The knowledge translation variable was also given a high preference score in both regions. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that the Puget Sound experts significantly favored attention to education, habitat restoration and species protection objectives in comparison to the Masan Bay experts. The Masan Bay experts placed greater emphasis on legislation and the type of institutional design than did the Puget Sound experts. Using cluster analysis, four distinct groups of respondents were independently identified in Puget Sound and three groups were identified in Masan Bay. One unique subgroup in the Puget Sound experts group, which was characterized by its high preferences for habitat restoration and species protection, was not observed in Masan Bay. Demographic variables (length of career and role in coastal issue) failed to account for the differences in groupings and preferences in either region, except for the variable ‘favoring information source’ in the Puget Sound group. This finding implies that the demographic information was not related to differences in group opinions in both regions. The analysis framework presented here was effective in identifying expert preferences regarding the overall structure and emphasis in coastal management programs. Thus, this framework can be applied towards coastal policy development. 相似文献
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Paul Ekness Timothy Randhir 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2007,43(6):1468-1482
Abstract: Spatio‐temporal linkages between hydrologic and ecologic dimensions of watersheds play a critical role in conservation policies. Habitat potential is influenced by variation along longitudinal and lateral gradients and land use disturbance. An assessment of these influences provides critical information for protecting watershed ecosystems and in making spatially explicit, conservation decisions. We use an ecohydrologic approach that focuses on interface between hydrological and ecological processes. This study focuses on changes in watershed habitat potentials along lateral (riparian), and longitudinal (stream order) dimensions and disturbance (land use). The habitat potentials were evaluated for amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds in the Westfield River Watershed of Massachusetts using geographic information systems and multivariate analysis. We use a polynomial model to study nonlinear effects using robust regression. Various spatial policies were modeled and evaluated for influence on species diversity. All habitat potentials showed a strong influence along spatial dimensions and disturbance. The habitat potential for all vertebrate groups studied decreased as the distance from the riparian zone increased. Headwaters and lower order subwatersheds had higher levels of species diversity compared to higher order subwatersheds. It was observed that locations with the least disturbance also had higher habitat potential. The study identifies three policy criteria that could be used to identify critical areas within a watershed to conserve habitat suitable for various species through management and restoration activities. A spatially variable policy that is based on stream order, riparian distance, and land use can be used to maximize watershed ecological benefits. Wider riparian zones with variable widths, protection of headwaters and lower order subwatersheds, and minimizing disturbance in riparian and headwater areas can be used in watershed policy. These management objectives could be achieved using targeted economic incentives, best management practices, zoning laws, and educational programs using a watershed perspective. 相似文献
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Edith González Afanador Michael E. Kjelland X. Ben Wu Neal Wilkins William E. Grant 《The Environmentalist》2016,36(3):310-328
The present research focused on using spatial analysis to determine relationships among land ownership property sizes and landscape structure, with a focus on conservation management implications. Indices and metrics of ownership property sizes and landscape structure were calculated for 20 km buffer areas around 31 North American Breeding Bird Survey transects, 12 located within the Edwards Plateau ecoregion and 18 in contiguous ecoregions. The number of bird species observed at each transect provided a measure of avian species richness associated with land cover classes for each respective transect (González in Urban influence on diversity of avifauna in the Edwards Plateau of Texas: effect of property sizes on rural landscape structure, Texas A&M University, 2005). Spatial correlations were calculated between each pair of the landscape indices. Spatial analysis identified a “threshold of habitat fragmentation” for the 500 acre (ac) ownership property size. Significant spatial correlations among variables showed that property sizes lower than 500 ac produced habitat fragmentation represented by a decrease in mean patch size (MN) and proximity among habitat patches (Index PROX). Spatial analysis also made possible the prioritization of ecological sub-regions of the Edwards Plateau for conservation or restoration. The Live Oak-Mesquite Savannah showed the highest average ownership property size (7305 ac) and the highest values of patch richness. Based on the results, management in the Live Oak-Mesquite Savannah sub-region should focus on the conservation of land mosaic diversity to assure native avian species turnover (Whittaker 1972). In Balcones Canyon Lands, 64 % of land was covered by farms smaller than 500 ac and the overall average ownership property size was above the threshold of fragmentation (1440 ac), implying that management policies there should focus both on habitat conservation and on restoration. In contrast, 71 % of land in the Lampasas Cut Plains was covered by farms smaller than 500 ac, and average ownership property size was very close to the fragmentation threshold (625 ac). Consequently, the results indicate that management in the Lampasas Cut Plains sub-region should focus on habitat restoration (e.g., corridors that connect isolated habitat patches). In general, the threshold of ownership property size, 500 ac, is important for conservation planning because below that threshold of property size, habitat patch size begins to decrease and the distance between equivalent patches of habitat increases. Isolated patches act as islands within a sea of less suitable habitat which produce negative effects on biodiversity. Identifying the spatial characteristics indicative of habitat fragmentation, or the likelihood thereof, is an important issue for conservation planning in places with urban sprawl influence. 相似文献
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Saproxylic (dead-wood-associated) and old-growth species are among the most threatened species in European forest ecosystems,
as they are susceptible to intensive forest management. Identifying areas with particular relevant features of biodiversity
is of prime concern when developing species conservation and habitat restoration strategies and in optimizing resource investments.
We present an approach to identify regional conservation and restoration priorities even if knowledge on species distribution
is weak, such as for saproxylic and old-growth species in Switzerland. Habitat suitability maps were modeled for an expert-based
selection of 55 focal species, using an ecological niche factor analyses (ENFA). All the maps were then overlaid, in order
to identify potential species’ hotspots for different species groups of the 55 focal species (e.g., birds, fungi, red-listed
species). We found that hotspots for various species groups did not correspond. Our results indicate that an approach based
on “richness hotspots” may fail to conserve specific species groups. We hence recommend defining a biodiversity conservation
strategy prior to implementing conservation/restoration efforts in specific regions. The conservation priority setting of
the five biogeographical regions in Switzerland, however, did not differ when different hotspot definitions were applied.
This observation emphasizes that the chosen method is robust. Since the ENFA needs only presence data, this species prediction
method seems to be useful for any situation where the species distribution is poorly known and/or absence data are lacking.
In order to identify priorities for either conservation or restoration efforts, we recommend a method based on presence data
only, because absence data may reflect factors unrelated to species presence. 相似文献
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Many species of conservation concern are spatially structured and require dispersal to be persistent. For such species, altering the distribution of suitable habitats on the landscape can affect population dynamics in ways that are difficult to predict from simple models. We argue that for such species, individual-based and spatially explicit population models (SEPMs) should be used to determine appropriate levels of off-site restoration to compensate for on-site loss of ecologic resources. Such approaches are necessary when interactions between biologic processes occur at different spatial scales (i.e., local [recruitment] and landscape [migration]). The sites of restoration and habitat loss may be linked to each other, but, more importantly, they may be linked to other resources in the landscape by regional biologic processes, primarily migration. The common management approach for determining appropriate levels of off-site restoration is to derive mitigation ratios based on best professional judgment or pre-existing data. Mitigation ratios assume that the ecologic benefits at the site of restoration are independent of the ecologic costs at the site of habitat loss. Using an SEPM for endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers, we show that the spatial configuration of habitat restoration can simultaneously influence both the rate of recruitment within breeding groups and the rate of migration among groups, implying that simple mitigation ratios may be inadequate. 相似文献
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Respective influence of habitat conditions and management regimes on prealpine calcareous grasslands
The calcareous grasslands of the south-western French Alps have been poorly studied, although they provide suitable habitat for rare plant species and communities. The separate and combined effects on calcareous grassland communities of habitat conditions (lithology, soil moisture) and management regimes (grazing intensity, cutting regime) were studied using constrained ordination techniques (canonical correspondence analysis with variance partitioning). Among the explanatory variables considered, the most important factor determining floristic composition was lithology, which explained 11.9% of floristic variability, followed by grazing intensity (6.0%). Additive effects of management and lithology explained 23.9% of floristic variability. Species niche amplitude was measured by conditional variances of samples along main ordination axes, in order to define adequate conservation management for the rarest short-lived species with narrow niche breadth on both habitat and management gradients. 相似文献
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The study attempts to separate the effects of forest fragmentation related to landscape (patch area, isolation) and habitat (altitude, vegetation structure) on bird community composition in a mountain pine forest. Bird composition was related, using a multivariate approach (canonical correspondence analyses), to either habitat or to landscape, eliminating the effect of habitat statistically. Bird composition and species richness varied with patch area and isolation from large pine stands, but this effect could be assigned principally to variation in vegetation structure and altitude. Another effect, that of increasing occurrence and numbers of Anthus trivialis with decreasing distance to nearest low-altitude forest, could be assigned to both habitat (grass cover) and landscape (connectivity effects). Management implications are drawn from the results. 相似文献
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Maximizing Benefits from Riparian Revegetation Efforts: Local- and Landscape-Level Determinants of Avian Response 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
With limited financial resources available for habitat restoration, information that ensures and/or accelerates success is
needed to economize effort and maximize benefit. In the Central Valley of California USA, riparian habitat has been lost or
degraded, contributing to the decline of riparian-associated birds and other wildlife. Active restoration of riparian plant
communities in this region has been demonstrated to increase local population sizes and species diversity of landbirds. To
evaluate factors related to variation in the rate at which bird abundance increased after restoration, we examined bird abundance
as a function of local (restoration design elements) and landscape (proportion of riparian vegetation in the landscape and
riparian patch density) metrics at 17 restoration projects within five project areas along the Sacramento River. We developed
a priori model sets for seven species of birds and used an information theoretic approach to identify factors associated with the
rate at which bird abundance increased after restoration. For six of seven species investigated, the model with the most support
contained a variable for the amount of riparian forest in the surrounding landscape. Three of seven bird species were positively
correlated with the number of tree species planted and three of seven were positively correlated with the planting densities
of particular tree species. Our results indicate that restoration success can be enhanced by selecting sites near existing
riparian habitat and planting multiple tree species. Hence, given limited resources, efforts to restore riparian habitat for
birds should focus on landscape-scale site selection in areas with high proportions of existing riparian vegetation. 相似文献
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BOWLER PA 《Environmental management》2000,26(Z1):S85-S96
Extensive acreage loss of coastal sage scrub (CSS), isolation of surviving stands, and the federal listing of several animal species with obligate relationships to this plant community, particularly the threatened California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica), have led to attempts to create CSS to mitigate habitat lost to urban development and other causes. Many of these creations lie within habitat conservation plan (HCP) sites, and they could play a more prominent role by being repositories for plants taken from a single site having site-specific genetics. Among others, one technique that increases initial resemblance to natural stands uses digitized, to-scale photography, which has been ground-truthed to verify vascular plant associations, which appear as mosaics on a landscape. A combination of placing patches of salvaged, mature canopy plants within larger matrices of imprinted or container plant plots appears to significantly enhance immediate use by CSS obligate bird species, accelerate "spread" or expansion of CSS, and can also introduce many epiphytic taxa that otherwise would be slow or unable to occupy developing CSS creations. Reptile, amphibian, butterfly, and rodent diversity in a salvaged canopy restoration case study at the University of California, Irvine, showed CSS species foraging and inhabiting transplanted canopy patches. Using restoration techniques to expand existing CSS stands has more promise than creating isolated patches, and the creation of canopies resembling CSS mid-fire cycle stands is now common. Gnatcatchers and other birds use restorations for foraging and occasional nesting, and in some cases created stands along "biological corridors" appear to be useful to bird movement. Patches of transplanted sage scrub shrubs along habitat edges appear to break up linear edge effects. There are no data on which long-term survival, succession, or postfire behavior can be predicted for CSS restoration sites, and postfire community changes are not part of either mitigation or restoration planning at present. Long-term planning including burning is needed so that a fire-adapted habitat will develop. Restoration is important in retaining genetic resources, for ameliorating edge effects, as habitat extenders in buffer zones around HCP sites, and by providing areas into which natural stands can expand. 相似文献
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We investigated differences in vegetation composition and dynamics for two globally rare ecosystems, bracken–grasslands and northern–dry forests of northern Wisconsin. These ecosystems commonly have been viewed as degraded pine barrens. Bracken–grasslands contained a high dominance of exotic species, low native richness, and no obvious prairie species, suggesting logging-era anthropogenic origins. Differences in cover for common plants among ecosystems were examined using Mann-Whitney U tests of equivalence. Cover of all 8 graminoid species, 4 of 5 Ericaceae and Myricaceae species, and 10 of 17 species of forbs were significantly different between ecosystems. Vegetation changes over a 4-year period were examined through detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) repeated measures. DCA analyses of community composition failed to detect significant temporal trends within individual management units, although differences were apparent between ecosystems, regardless of sample year. In addition, no apparent patterns could be detected between years when comparing dominant individual species to management history (prescribed fire). This is contrary to what would be expected for a degraded pine barrens and questions the efficacy of using repeated prescribed fire as a management tool in bracken–grasslands. Methods for conservation and restoration of xeric ecosystems of northern Wisconsin have historically relied heavily on single species (e.g., sharp-tailed grouse) wildlife models, without full consideration of other factors. We suggest that stakeholders involved in these restoration projects examine historic processes and reference conditions prior to formulating management goals. Greater attention to the differentiation and individual management needs of pine barrens, northern–dry forests, and bracken–grasslands is needed. 相似文献
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Strange E Galbraith H Bickel S Mills D Beltman D Lipton J 《Environmental management》2002,29(2):290-300
The amount of ecological restoration required to mitigate or compensate for environmental injury or habitat loss is often
based on the goal of achieving ecological equivalence. However, few tools are available for estimating the extent of restoration
required to achieve habitat services equivalent to those that were lost. This paper describes habitat equivalency analysis
(HEA), a habitat-based “service-to-service” approach for determining the amount of restoration needed to compensate for natural
resource losses, and examines issues in its application in the case of salt marsh restoration. The scientific literature indicates
that although structural attributes such as vegetation may recover within a few years, there is often a significant lag in
the development of ecological processes such as nutrient cycling that are necessary for a fully functioning salt marsh. Moreover,
natural variation can make recovery trajectories difficult to define and predict for many habitat services. HEA is an excellent
tool for scaling restoration actions because it reflects this ecological variability and complexity. At the same time, practitioners
must recognize that conclusions about the amount of restoration needed to provide ecological services equivalent to those
that are lost will depend critically on the ecological data and assumptions that are used in the HEA calculation. 相似文献
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dentification of groups that are similar in their floristic composition and structure (habitat types) is essential for conservation
and forest managers to allocate high priority areas and to designate areas for reserves, refuges, and other protected areas.
In this study, the use of indigenous knowledge for the identification of habitat types in the field was compared against an
ecological characterization of habitat types, including their species composition obtained by using classification and ordination
techniques for a tropical landscape mosaic in a rural Mayan area of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Plant diversity data calculated
from 141 sampled sites chosen randomly on a vegetation class’s thematic map obtained by multispectral satellite image classification
were used for this propose. Results indicated high similarity in the categorization of vegetation types between the Mayan
classification and those obtained by cluster and detrended correspondence analysis. This suggests that indigenous knowledge
has a practical use and can be comparable to that obtained by using science-based methods. Finally, identification and mapping
of vegetation classes (habitat types) using satellite image classification allowed us to discriminate significantly different
species compositions, in such a way that they can provide a useful mechanism for interpolating diversity values over the entire
landscape. 相似文献
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A Spatially Explicit Resource-Based Approach for Managing Stream Fishes in Riverscapes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The article describes a riverscape approach based on landscape ecology concepts, which aims at studying the multiscale relationships
between the spatial pattern of stream fish habitat patches and processes depending on fish movements. A review of the literature
shows that few operational methods are available to study this relationship due to multiple methodological and practical challenges
inherent to underwater environments. We illustrated the approach with literature data on a cyprinid species (Barbus barbus) and an actual riverscape of the Seine River, France. We represented the underwater environment of fishes for different discharges
using two-dimensional geographic information system-based maps of the resource habitat patches, defined according to activities
(feeding, resting, and spawning). To quantify spatial patterns at nested levels (resource habitat patch, daily activities
area, subpopulation area), we calculated their composition, configuration, complementation, and connectivity with multiple
spatial analysis methods: patch metrics, moving-window analysis, and least cost modeling. The proximity index allowed us to
evaluate habitat patches of relatively great value, depending on their spatial context, which contributes to the setting of
preservation policies. The methods presented to delimit potential daily activities areas and subpopulation areas showed the
potential gaps in the biological connectivity of the reach. These methods provided some space for action in restoration schemes. 相似文献
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Contingent valuation methods were used to derive an economic value for salmonid spawning habitat restoration. Anglers' willingness to pay for such restoration and farmers' willingness to accept compensation for lost productivity due to the restoration were investigated using questionnaire and face-to-face surveys, respectively. These elements were combined with the Wye Habitat Improvement Project (WHIP) budget into a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) based upon direct use values only. The CBA assumed that the WHIP will improve salmonid stock. Different levels of investment were considered and the CBA gave a positive net present value indicating an economically viable project and benefit-to-cost ratios greater than one for minor projects. However, the number of anglers using the Wye would need to double or triple in order to justify the full WHIP budget. Management of an environmental resource must consider users' and stakeholders' needs and opinions. It was found that anglers on the Wye value habitat/scenery in its own right and that this played an important part in the activity. Farmers' agreement regarding involvement in such projects was more likely to be determined by their political and ethical views than receiving an economic compensation. 相似文献
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Under the United States Oil Pollution Act of 1990, natural resource trustees are charged with assessing natural resource impacts
due to an oil spill and determining the type and amount of natural resource restoration that will compensate the public for
the impacts. Habitat equivalency analysis is a technique through which the impacts due to the spill and the benefits of restoration
are quantified; both are quantified as habitat resources and associated ecological services. The goal of the analysis is to
determine the amount of restoration such that the services lost are offset by services provided by restoration.
In this paper, we first describe the habitat equivalency analysis framework. We then present an oil spill case from coastal
Louisiana, USA, where the framework was applied to quantify resource impacts and determine the scale of restoration. In the
Louisiana case, the trustees assessed impacts for oiled salt marsh and direct mortality to finfish, shellfish, and birds.
The restoration project required planting salt-marsh vegetation in dredge material that was deposited on a barrier island.
Using the habitat equivalency analysis framework, it was determined that 7.5 ha of the dredge platform should be planted as
salt marsh. The planted hectares will benefit another 15.9 ha through vegetative spreading resulting in a total of 23.4 ha
that will be enhanced or restored as compensation for the natural resource impacts. 相似文献
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Associating Ecosystem Service Losses with Indicators of Toxicity in Habitat Equivalency Analysis 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Habitat equivalency analysis (HEA) was developed as a tool to scale mitigation or restoration when habitat is contaminated by hazardous substances or has been otherwise harmed by anthropogenic activities. Applying HEA involves balancing reductions in habitat quality against gains from restoration actions, and quantifying changes in habitat quality in terms of ecological services. We propose a framework for developing ecological service definitions and measures that incorporate knowledge about the impacts of chemical contaminants on biota. We describe a general model for integrating multiple lines of evidence about the toxicity of hazardous substances to allow mapping of toxicological inputs to ecological service losses. We provide an example of how this framework might be used in a HEA that quantifies ecological services provided by estuarine sediments contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. 相似文献
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Restoration of a Canadian Prairie Wetland with Agricultural and Municipal Wastewater 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
3 /day (800,000 US gallons) of municipal wastewater and beef processing wastewater. A large nongovernmental organization hastened
restoration with a development process that outlined restoration goals and management objectives to satisfy a dual mandate
of wastewater treatment and wildlife habitat creation. In 1995, after five years of wastewater additions, the basins had been
refilled and the surrounding uplands had been acquired and restored. The Frank Lake Conservation Area currently provides high-quality
habitat for a variety of wildlife in a region where many of the native plants and animals species have been lost due to habitat
loss and fragmentation. The success of upland and water management strategies is reflected in the increase of target species'
abundance and richness: 50 shorebird species, 44 waterfowl species, 15 raptor species, and 28 other new bird species have
returned to the marsh since restoration. As well, significant N and P reduction occurs as waters flow through the first basin
of the marsh. The management strategies of this project that satisfied a dual mandate serve as a model to guide managers of
other large-scale wetland restoration projects. 相似文献
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Alexandridis TK Lazaridou E Tsirika A Zalidis GC 《Journal of environmental management》2009,90(7):2243-2251
The European Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC has defined the need for the conservation of habitats and species with the adoption of appropriate measures. Within the Natura 2000 ecological network of special areas of conservation, natural habitats will be monitored to ensure the maintenance or restoration of their composition, structure and extent. The European Space Agency's GlobWetland project has provided remotely sensed products for several Ramsar wetlands worldwide, such as detailed land cover-land use, water cycle and inundated vegetation maps. This paper presents the development and testing of an operational methodology for updating a wetland's habitat map using the GlobWetland products, and the evaluation of the extent to which GlobWetland products have contributed to the habitat map updating. The developed methodology incorporated both automated and analyst-supervised techniques to photo-interpret, delineate, refine, and evaluate the updated habitat polygons. The developed methodology was proven successful in its application to the wetland complex of the Axios-Loudias-Aliakmon delta (Greece). The resulting habitat map met the European and Greek national requirements. Results revealed that GlobWetland products were a valuable contribution, but source data (enhanced satellite images) were necessary to discriminate spectrally similar habitats. Finally, the developed methodology can be modified for original habitat mapping. 相似文献