A GIS-based modeling approach to predicting cave disturbance in karst landscapes: a case study from west-central Florida
| Autor: | Jason S. Polk, Leslie A. North, Mark Van Aken, James F. Dickens, Grant L. Harley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Hydrology
Atmospheric Science geography Geographic information system geography.geographical_feature_category business.industry Linear model Karst humanities Proxy (climate) Cave Spatial model Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) General Earth and Planetary Sciences Environmental science business General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Physical Geography. 35:123-133 |
| ISSN: | 1930-0557 0272-3646 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02723646.2014.898198 |
| Popis: | We present a GIS-based cave disturbance model (CDM) that can be used as a tool to predict the disturbance of cave systems. To validate our model, we compare results to an in situ cave disturbance index (CDI) that was applied to 36 terrestrial caves during the year 2007 in west-central Florida. The CDM demonstrated high-performance skill and produced similar disturbance scores compared to the CDI. The CDM disturbance scores ranged from 0.22 (minimum) to 0.78 (maximum), and the mean disturbance score for all 36 caves was 0.45. The mean of the CDI scores was 0.40, but the difference between means was not significantly different (p = 0.147, t-test). Disturbance scores from the CDM and CDI were significantly correlated (R = 0.45, R2 = 0.20; p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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