Table 2. Contribution of environmental variables to malaria vector species' niche models.

Species	Variable	% Contribution to Model	AUC without variable	AUC with only variable	Model AUC
Anopheles arabiensis	precipitation seasonality*	48.5	0.983	0.866	0.989
	maximum temperature of the warmest month	16.6	0.990	0.766
	land cover (unsupervised)+	14.9	0.979	0.889
	human population density	9.2	0.985	0.776
	precipitation of the warmest month	4.1	0.990	0.763
	temperature annual range	3.9	0.989	0.736
	temperature seasonality	1.9	0.989	0.764
	precipitation of the coldest month	0.8	0.989	0.531
	altitude	0.1	0.990	0.570
Anopheles funestus	maximum temperature of the warmest month*	37.2	0.991	0.826	0.991
	precipitation seasonality	35.7	0.963	0.833
	land cover (unsupervised)+	25.7	0.940	0.951
	temperature seasonality	0.9	0.987	0.598
	human population density	0.5	0.988	0.731
	Altitude	0.0	0.987	0.595
Anopheles gambiae	precipitation of the coldest quarter* +	64.7	0.997	0.974	0.997
	land cover (unsupervised)	15.0	0.990	0.949
	Altitude	8.5	0.997	0.951
	minimum temperature of the coldest month	5.3	0.997	0.923
	annual precipitation	2.1	0.997	0.959
	mean temperature of the warmest quarter	1.6	0.997	0.944
	maximum temperature of the warmest month	1.0	0.997	0.910
	precipitation of the driest quarter	1.0	0.997	0.967
	precipitation of the warmest quarter	0.3	0.997	0.640
	human population density	0.4	0.997	0.864

*largest % contribution to model.

⁺largest AUC on its own.