Table 2 Relative importance of environmental variables in the random forest model rated by Gini importance (mean decrease in Gini impurity); variables with high Gini importance values have a higher predictive value.
Variable | Gini importance |
|---|---|
Median normalized difference water index | 5.39 |
Distance to coast | 5.06 |
Distance to water | 4.99 |
Night time light intensity | 4.15 |
Precipitation seasonality | 3.45 |
Slope | 3.27 |
Temperature seasonality | 2.64 |
Annual mean temperature | 2.62 |
Annual precipitation | 2.48 |
Elevation | 2.41 |