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. 2011 Mar;4(2):397–413. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00172.x

Table 1.

Results from Maxent species distribution models

Most important variables

Species No. sites AUC Test AUC Test P By themselves When omitted
WBWC 71 0.898* 0.899* 0.001 QSCATmean, Bio18* Bio18, QSCATmean*
MFP 103 0.997 0.995 <0.000 SRTM, Bio4 Bio4, SRTM
SNFC 34 0.987 0.983 <0.000 SRTM, SRTMstd SRTM
Cb 31 0.949 0.786 0.009 Bio16, 12, 18 LAImax, -range, SRTMstd
Cc 20 0.935 0.790 0.002 Bio18, 16 LAImax
Cp 36 0.895 0.744 0.007 Bio16, 18 ∼Equal for all variables
Pw-n 135 0.990 0.983 0.000 Bio1, 5, 6, SRTM ∼Equal for all variables

Shown are the number of georeferenced sites used to build the distribution model; two measures of model performance: (i) the area under the receiver operator curve (AUC) for full models and for test data sets (40% of the full data set), and (ii) the P-value from a one-tailed binomial test on the Maxent extrinsic omission rate and proportional predicted area (Anderson et al. 2002), where significant P-values indicate high model performance; the most important environmental predictor variables as assessed by a jackknifing procedure, where the variable either is used on its own or is the only one omitted from the data set. See Table S1 for information on the environmental variables.

WBWC, wedge-billed woodcreeper; MFP, masked flowerpiercer; SNFC, streak-necked flycatcher; Cb, Carollia brevicauda; Cc, Carollia castanea; Cp, Carollia perspicillata; Pw-n, Pristimantis w-nigrum; SRTM, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.