Table 1.

Linear correlations between initial environmental variables and P. vivax and P. falciparum incidences.

	P. vivax		P. falciparum#
Variable	Pearson r	P value	Pearson r	P value
% bare soil#	-0.17	0.381	-0.69	< 0.001**
% secondary forest	0,00	0.999	-0.03	0.891
% primary forest	0.08	0.688	0.54	0.003**
% deep water	0.28	0.149	-0.39	0.043*
% burned land#	-0.24	0.218	-0.43	0.022*
% low vegetation	-0.09	0.665	0.06	0.761
% medium vegetation#	-0.05	0.783	0.24	0.227
% high vegetation	0.17	0.396	0.68	< 0.001**
% river banks/shallow water#	0.30	0.124	-0.24	0.212
No. of inhabited dwellings#	-0.30	0.116	-0.60	0.001**
Length of river banks#	0.32	0.097	-0.44	0.018*
Length of creeks#	-0.06	0.771	0.48	0.01*
Landscape divison 1	0.46	0.013*	-0.10	0.601
Landscape divison 2	0.49	0.008**	0.48	0.009**

We used buffers with radii of 100 m and 400 m for P. vivax and P. falciparum incidences, respectively. Symbols * and ** correspond to statistical significance at the 0.05 and 0.01 (alpha risks) levels, respectively. Significant correlation coefficients are shown in bold. Landscape division 2 was computed by considering all land-cover classes other than unfragmented forest. The symbol # identifies variables that have been transformed (square-root transformation).