Table 8 Environmental variable importance for MEM models with NWG – SWG classification. PC: Percentage contribution and PI: Permutation importance, MEM-NWG: MaxEnt model for Northern Western Ghats population, MEM-SWG: MaxEnt model for Southern Western Ghats population.

From: Revisiting current distribution and future habitat suitability models for the endemic Malabar Tree Toad (Pedostibes tuberculosus) using citizen science data

Model

Selected environmental layers

PC

PI

Variables

MEM-NWG

MEM-SWG

MEM-NWG

MEM-SWG

Bio 1

0.34

1.3

3.05

0.01

Bio 2

1.29

2.16

 

4.85

Bio 3

1.89

2.29

4.5

1.11

Bio 6

0.25

0.98

0.44

5.55

Bio 9

0.56

0.68

1

15.88

Bio 12

53.4

23.07

11

16.88

Bio 14

11.48

1.4

0.89

7.05

Bio 15

3.73

1.32

8.48

1.03

Bio 18

5.66

3.91

8.12

16.04

Bio 19

0.88

18.57

1.6

12.08

Aspect

0.27

0.42

0.5

1.37

Elevation

0.46

7.94

13.76

2.39

Slope

0.4

0.56

0.85

1.25

LULC

7.25

4.9

0.56

5.39

NDVI Feb

1.29

1.31

1.93

0.77

NDVI April

3.26

2.24

2.4

0.91

NDVI June

0.34

0.65

1.21

0.77

NDVI July

0.4

0.23

0.63

0.66

NDVI August

0.66

0.13

0.26

0.5

NDVI Sep

0.18

0.04

0.58

0.07

NDVI Oct

0.18

1.74

0.03

1.86

NDVI Nov

0.55

1.96

0.69

2.8

NDVI Dec

1.65

0.59

4.48

0.49

Vegetation Cover

3.63

21.65

1.36

0.3

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