Table 3. Rotated component matrix of Principal Component Analysis.
| Bioclimatic variables | Components | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Bio01 Annual Mean Temperature | 0.967 | 0.212 | −0.042 |
| Bio02 Mean Diurnal Range (Mean of monthly (max temp - min temp)) | 0.403 | −0.214 | −0.379 |
| Bio03 Isothermality (BIO2/BIO7) (* 100) | 0.805 | 0.335 | 0.183 |
| Bio04 Temperature Seasonality (standard deviation *100) | −0.843 | −0.252 | −0.267 |
| Bio05 Max Temperature of Warmest Month | 0.856 | 0.074 | −0.287 |
| Bio06 Min Temperature of Coldest Month | 0.952 | 0.242 | 0.112 |
| Bio07 Temperature Annual Range (BIO5-BIO6) | −0.773 | −0.298 | −0.365 |
| Bio08 Mean Temperature of Wettest Quarter | 0.764 | 0.328 | −0.287 |
| Bio09 Mean Temperature of Driest Quarter | 0.958 | 0.11 | 0.095 |
| Bio10 Mean Temperature of Warmest Quarter | 0.892 | 0.148 | −0.21 |
| Bio11 Mean Temperature of Coldest Quarter | 0.967 | 0.231 | 0.054 |
| Bio12 Annual Precipitation | 0.3 | 0.798 | 0.502 |
| Bio13 Precipitation of Wettest Month | 0.342 | 0.896 | 0.166 |
| Bio14 Precipitation of Driest Month | 0.095 | 0.382 | 0.82 |
| Bio15 Precipitation Seasonality (Coefficient of Variation) | 0.285 | 0.068 | −0.745 |
| Bio16 Precipitation of Wettest Quarter | 0.332 | 0.894 | 0.205 |
| Bio17 Precipitation of Driest Quarter | 0.106 | 0.403 | 0.825 |
| Bio18 Precipitation of Warmest Quarter | 0.119 | 0.86 | 0.234 |
| Bio19 Precipitation of Coldest Quarter | 0.237 | 0.438 | 0.671 |
Varimax rotation method with Kaiser normalization. The components are scaled between 0–1; the closer the values to one, the more variance they explain. Values between 0.7–0.79, 0.8–0.89.