Shrub height and crown width serve as critical morphological parameters essential for understanding ecosystem structure and function.These metrics facilitate estimations of shrub biomass,density,diversity,and carbon emissions,thereby enabling assessments of ecosystem health.This study investigated the crown widths of dominant sand-fixing shrubs including Artemisia ordosica,Caragana korshinskii,Krascheninnikovia ceratoides,and Corethrodendron scoparium in natural and artificial vegetation zones along the southeastern fringe of the Tengger Desert,constructing sixteen base models for crown width across distinct vegetation zones and shrub species.Comparative analysis of model fitting performance identified optimal crown width models for specific vegetation zones and shrubs. The results showed that optimal models varied significantly across vegetation zones and species.The Quadratic base model achieved the best fit in natural vegetation zones,while the Korf base model excelled in artificial zones.For the dominant shrub A.ordosica,the Scaled-Power and Hossfeld I base models were optimal in natural and artificial zones,respectively. C.korshinskii performed best under the Gauss model in natural zones and the Logistic model in artificial zones. K.ceratoides favored the Log-Logistic base model,and C.scoparium the Quadratic base model.These results provide a scientific basis for ecological modeling and windbreak-sand fixation efficacy evaluation in relevant regions.
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