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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Nov 8.
Published in final edited form as: Stacks (Portland). 2024 Nov 8;2024:24004. doi: 10.60102/stacks-24004

Table 1:

Environmental predictor contribution values.

Environmental variable Optimal scale (km) Permutation importance (%)

All road traffic 1 30.9
Coniferous cover 3 23.7
Woodland cover 3 20.3
Pasture cover 3 8.4
Arable cover 3 7.9
Minor road traffic 3 3
Broadleaved woodland 1 1.7
B-road density 3 1.1
Improved grassland 1 1
Scrub cover 3 0.8
Rough grassland 1 0.5
Freshwater cover 3 0.4
Urban cover 3 0.3