Abstract
GIS Application for Biotope Evaluation of Bird Community-Vegetation Cover Relationship Track: Ecology and Conservation Author(s): Shintaro Goto, Toshikazu Sakai To know the environmental condition regulated with the species composition of the bird community around the biotope, it is necessary to classify a large number of investigated bird species composition and to know the correlation between each group and the environmental condition. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between bird species composition and the vegetation cover around the Mitstumata-numa biotope located in the Mid-Arakawa River. Therefore, bird species composition was classified using cluster analysis. In addition, the matching between the bird groups classified and land cover of the observation site was carried out using CCA (Canonical Correspondence Analysis) and CART (Classification and Regression Trees). To retrieve spatial parameters, ArcGIS was used and the results were analyzed by SPSS. Finally, the classification results using both methods were spatially compared using ArcGIS, and the adaptability of the evaluation model was clarified. Shintaro Goto Rissho University Dept. of Environmental Systems Faculty of GEO-Environmental Science 1700 Magechi Kumagaya , Saitama Prefecture 360-0194 JP Phone: +81-485-39-1630 E-mail: got@ris.ac.jp Toshikazu Sakai Rissho University Openresearch Senter 1700 Magechi Kumagaya , Saitama Prefecture 360-0194 JP Phone: +81-485-39-1630 Fax: +81-485-39-1632 E-mail: sakai@es.ris.ac.jp |
|||||
