Table 1.
Description of environmental factors used in analyses. In total, 21 factors were chosen to represent eight aspects of environmental conditions: vegetation phenology, climate, land cover, biodiversity, topography, soil property, relative tidal elevation, and distance to the shoreline.
Factor type | Factor name | Description | Resolution | Reference |
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Vegetation | kNDVI | Mean kernel Normalized Difference Vegetation Index | 30 m | [79] |
Climate | Tmax | Annual average maximum temperature | 1 km | [83] |
Tmin | Annual average minimum temperature | |||
Prcp | Total accumulated precipitation | |||
Land cover | Forest | Fraction of forest land | 30 m | [84] |
Shrub_grass_pasture | Fraction of shrub/grass/pasture land | |||
Crop | Fraction of cropland | |||
Wetland | Fraction of wetland | |||
Biodiversity | Shannon_diversity | Mean Shannon diversity | 30 m | [85] |
Topography | Elevation | Mean elevation | 10 m | [86,87] |
Aspect | Mean aspect | |||
Slope | Mean slope | |||
TWI | Mean topographic wetness index | |||
Soil property | Clay_mean | Mean clay content | 100 m | [88] |
Sand_mean | Mean sand content | |||
BD_mean | Mean bulk density | |||
pH_mean | Mean pH value | |||
SOC_mean | Mean soil organic carbon content | |||
TN_mean | Mean total nitrogen | |||
Tidal level | Inundation | Fraction of inundated area | 30 m | [64] |
Distance | Distance | Euclidean distance from centroid of grid to shoreline |