Fig. 4: Partial effects of the six most important predictors of regenerating TMF age.
From: The pan-tropical age distribution of regenerating tropical moist forest
The partial effect plots on regenerating forest age of the top six most important variables across the three models (excluding longitude, latitude and country) in order of importance (left to right). The regional-level partial effects are coloured by region: Americas (green), Africa (orange) and Asia–Pacific (purple). The distribution of data points for modelling partial effects in each region is shown at the bottom of each plot. Predicted age values represent predictions from the stratified sample of secondary forest points used to train the random forest models, and not the raw data, which was heavily skewed towards younger forests.
