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Published in: Chinese Medicine 1/2019

Open Access 01-12-2019 | Research

A new GIS model for ecologically suitable distributions of medicinal plants

Authors: Jie Wu, Xiwen Li, Linfang Huang, Xiangxiao Meng, Haoyu Hu, Lu Luo, Shilin Chen

Published in: Chinese Medicine | Issue 1/2019

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Abstract

Background

The endangered rate of medicinal plant exceeds that of endangered plant species. However, blindly introducing medicinal plants in regions without comprehensively considering the involved environmental factors results in diseases and insect pests and the consequent overproof pesticide residue as well as reduces the quality of herbal medicine produced.

Methods

Global Medicinal Plant Geographic Information System (GMPGIS) was developed to analyze environmental information of ecologically suitable regions, thus guiding the conservation and introduction of medicinal plants. This system is based on theories and methods from multiple disciplines, including computer science, geoinformatics, ecology, and traditional herbal medicine. Using a range-based method, the previously established ecologically suitable regions were evaluated. This new method effectively resolved the problem of outlier points, and its functions were implemented in Python. The system automatically calculates the Euclidean distance of climatic factors and intersection of soil factors, thus identifying regions with high ecological similarity and those are climatically and edaphically suitable for the cultivation of medicinal plants.

Results

These results, validated using real-world regions, revealed that GMPGIS is highly accurate in screening ecologically suitable regions for the cultivation of medicinal plants worldwide.

Conclusions

Overall, because of these features, the GMPGIS is considered as a suitable distribution analysis system for global medicinal plant cultivation.
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Metadata
Title
A new GIS model for ecologically suitable distributions of medicinal plants
Authors
Jie Wu
Xiwen Li
Linfang Huang
Xiangxiao Meng
Haoyu Hu
Lu Luo
Shilin Chen
Publication date
01-12-2019
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Chinese Medicine / Issue 1/2019
Electronic ISSN: 1749-8546
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13020-019-0226-0

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