Table 4. Total, direct and indirect impacts of five local attributes on the probability of a hexagon harboring at least one microendemic species of terrestrial vertebrates in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
| Attributes | Impact | Standard error |
z | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latitude | ||||
| Total | −2.01 | 0.76 | −2.66 | 0.01 |
| Direct | −1.90 | 0.88 | −2.17 | 0.03 |
| Indirect | −0.11 | 0.31 | −0.36 | 0.72 |
| Altitude | ||||
| Total | 1.29 | 0.37 | 3.50 | 0.00 |
| Direct | 1.22 | 0.24 | 5.00 | 0.00 |
| Indirect | 0.07 | 0.22 | 0.32 | 0.75 |
| Distance from the coastline | ||||
| Total | −4.89 | 1.30 | −3.76 | 0.00 |
| Direct | −4.62 | 1.08 | −4.28 | 0.00 |
| Indirect | −0.27 | 0.82 | −0.33 | 0.74 |
| Climate stability index | ||||
| Total | −1.65 | 0.57 | −2.89 | 0.00 |
| Direct | −1.56 | 0.52 | −2.98 | 0.00 |
| Indirect | −0.09 | 0.26 | −0.33 | 0.74 |
| Ecological integrity | ||||
| Total | 0.59 | 0.18 | 3.32 | 0.00 |
| Direct | 0.56 | 0.15 | 3.87 | 0.00 |
| Indirect | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.33 | 0.74 |