Table 3 Bioclimatic variables used in the variable selection strategy to build a climate similarity model for Potamotrygon motoro and P. jabuti introduced in Indonesia.

From: Foreign stingers: South American freshwater river stingrays Potamotrygon spp. established in Indonesia

Bioclimatic variables

 

BIO1

Annual mean temperature

BIO2

Mean diurnal range (Mean of monthly (max temp − min temp))

BIO3

Isothermality (BIO2/BIO7) (× 100)

BIO4

Temperature seasonality (standard deviation × 100)

BIO5

Max temperature of warmest month

BIO6

Min temperature of coldest month

BIO7

Temperature annual range (BIO5–BIO6)

BIO9

Mean temperature of driest quarter

BIO10

Mean temperature of warmest quarter

BIO11

Mean temperature of coldest quarter