Figure 2
The relative influence of the predictors in Kashmir musk deer distribution; predictors are listed on y-axis. We started our model construction process with 26 potential predictors (Table 1). However, four of these covariates (land cover, aspect, altitude and distance to the nearest water source) were not available for future climate scenarios at our desired spatial resolution or required enormous computational resources. These covariates were some of the least important predictors (relative influence <3), and therefore were dropped from further analysis. The remaining 22 predictors (Table 1) were used to develop the model.
