Potential Distribution Prediction of Terminalia chebula Retz. in China Under Current and Future Climate Scenarios.

ABSTRACT: Climate change in the future could potentially expand, shrink, or alter the habitats of numerous species, leading to changes in their spatial distributions. Predicting suitable areas for cultivating medicinal plants through modeling has become an effective tool for assessing site suitability and conserving medicinal plant resources. Utilizing GIS and MaxEnt model, we predicted the spatial distribution of Terminalia chebula Retz. in China for the current and for the future (2050s and 2070s) under the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 representative concentration pathways. In this study, we utilized 73 occurrence records and incorporated eight environmental factors from WorldClim for the modeling process. The findings revealed that the evaluation of the model's performance was based on the area under

SUBMITTER: Dong ZH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11775412 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature