Chinese Alligator Habitat Suitability Assessment in Hongxing Reserve

Ke Sun's dataset supports research on using small reservoirs for Chinese alligator habitat recovery. It includes a high-resolution land cover map from UAV orthophotos, GPS tracking points from four reintroduced alligators, and habitat suitability scores from an optimized Random Forest model. The data was last updated on 2026-05-24.

Use Cases

• Modeling habitat suitability for the Chinese alligator based on land cover data.
• Analyzing home range size and composition based on GPS tracking data.
• Assessing the relationship between land cover types and habitat suitability scores.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of small reservoirs as high-quality habitats for species recovery.

Strengths

• Includes GPS tracking data from four individual alligators.
• Contains a high-resolution land cover map created from UAV orthophotos.
• Habitat suitability scores are generated using an optimized Random Forest model.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Ke Sun

Collection Method

Data includes manual interpretation of UAV orthophotos and GPS tracking of reintroduced animals.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-24 02:21:47; freshness should be verified

Geography

Hongxing Reserve