Figure 3

Habitat suitability analysis for the Italian hare and the European hare. (a) Multivariate environmental similarity surface (MESS) showing areas where model predictions are extrapolations in comparison to the training data set. The red areas show one or more environmental variables outside the range. (b) Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for the Italian hare (LC) and the European hare (LE) of the models, AUC area under the curve. Habitat suitability maps of (c) the Italian hare (LC) and (d) the European hare (LE) based on MaxEnt models using 13 environmental variables and 234 and 261 presence points, respectively. 10 percentile training presence (0.321 for LC and 0.116 for LE) and Maximum training sensitivity plus specificity (0.229 for LC and 0.250 for LE) were used as thresholds for probability of presence (HS). Figures were modified from the maps created with software QGIS v.3.4.2⁶⁶, available at https://www.qgis.org.