Distribution Patterns of <i>Platycodon grandiflorus</i> From the Last Interglacial Period to the Future by Ecological Niche Modeling.

ABSTRACT: Global climate change may represent a significant threat to the distribution and quality of medicinal plants, altering cultivation areas and compromising the quality of medical materials. Platycodon grandiflorus, a traditional Chinese medicinal herb, has a millennia-long medicinal and culinary use history in East Asia. Given its escalating demand, accurately evaluating the changes under different climate scenarios and predicting its potential distribution are imperative for ensuring its conservation and sustainable utilization. By integrating MaxEnt with ArcGIS, this study advances previous approaches by incorporating historical, present, and future climate data to model the distribution dynamics of P. grandiflorus across China. The results indicated: (1) The species' distrib

SUBMITTER: Li CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11955282 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature