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. 2024 Apr 27;10(9):e30470. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30470

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
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