Table 1.

Environmental features considered in the analyses, and their respective minimum, 25% quartile, mean, 75% quartile and maximum values.

Feature	Acronym	Unit	Minimum	25% quartile	Mean	75% quartile	Maximum
Longitude	LON	$_{}^{\circ }$	− 57.8919	− 56.1094	− 49.5761	− 43.8150	− 35.6094
Latitude	LAT	$_{}^{\circ }$	− 20.4428	− 19.1983	− 14.6973	− 13.6750	− 6.0432
Altitude	ALT	m	102.00	389.00	511.72	670.00	993.00
Mean air temperature	TMEAN	$_{}^{\circ }$C	9.70	23.27	24.98	27.01	34.92
Maximum air temperature	TMAX	$_{}^{\circ }$C	14.33	28.26	30.73	32.95	42.49
Minimum air temperature	TMIN	$_{}^{\circ }$C	3.24	17.91	20.09	22.88	28.58
Dew point	T2MDEW	$_{}^{\circ }$C	− 7.08	14.03	17.62	21.47	24.87
Daily temperature range	TRANGE	$_{}^{\circ }$C/day	1.61	7.43	10.64	13.80	23.73
Wind speed	WS	m/s	0.18	0.89	1.84	2.50	5.91
Relative humidity	RH2M	%	17.56	57.44	68.02	80.81	94.44
Precipitation	PREC	mm/day	0.00	0.00	3.07	3.48	66.86
Horizontal infrared radiation intensity	HIRI	MJ/m2/day	255.18	371.52	388.17	410.41	453.37
Insolation incidence on a horizontal surface	IIHS	MJ/m2/day	1.97	16.88	19.51	22.55	32.21
Extraterrestial radiation	RTA	MJ/m2/day	23.74	30.38	34.85	39.32	42.27
Vapour pressure deficit	VPD	kPa	0.10	0.76	1.37	1.75	4.68
Slope of saturation vapour pressure curve	SPV	kPa$_{}^{\circ }$C	0.08	0.18	0.20	0.21	0.31
Potential evapotranspiration	ETP	mm/day	0.87	7.66	8.94	10.38	14.79
Deficit by precipitation	PETP	mm/day	− 14.79	− 9.78	− 5.87	− 4.61	61.76
Effect of temperature on radiation use efficiency	FRUE	–	0.00	0.83	0.88	0.98	1.00
Soil organic content	SOC	g/kg	13.30	14.20	19.32	23.80	24.70
Silt content	SILT	%	14.00	15.00	21.37	28.00	36.00
Sand content	SAND	%	30.00	43.00	46.69	52.00	59.00
Clay content	CLAY	%	26.00	27.00	32.11	35.00	41.00
pH	PH	–	4.90	5.10	5.22	5.40	5.70
Bulk density of the fine earth fraction	BDOD	kg/dm3	1.20	1.30	1.31	1.40	1.40