摘要
There are typical ecosystems of littoral wetlands in the Yellow River Delta. In order to study the relationshipsbetween Tamarix chinensis and environmental variables and to predict T. chinensis potential distribution in the YellowRiver Delta, 641 vegetation samples and 964 soil samples were collected in the area in October of 2004, 2005 ,2006 and2007. The contents of soil organic matter, total phosphorus, salt, and soluble potassium were determined. Then, theanalyzed data were interpolated into spatial raster data by Kriging interpolation method. Meanwhile, the digital elevationmodel, soil type map and landform unit map of the Yellow River Delta were also collected. Generalized Additive Models(GAMs) were employed to build species-environment model and then simulate the potential distribution of T. chinen-sis. The results indicated that the distribution of T. chinensis was mainly limited by soil salt content, total soil phosphoruscontent, soluble potassium content, soil type, landform unit, and elevation. The distribution probability of T. chinensiswas produced with a lookup table generated by Crasp Module (based on GAMs) in software ArcView CIS 3.2. The AUC(Area Under Curve) value of validation and cross-validation of ROC (Receive Operating Characteristic) were bothhigher than 0.8, which suggested that the established model had a high precision for predicting species distribution.