Table 4. The ten most important explanatory variables for the Direct economic uses, Other forest uses, Cultural spiritual importance, Importance for health, and Environmental health benefits indices in the BRT analysis, showing the explanatory variables in order down each column with their relative importance.

Direct economic uses		Other forest uses		Cultural spiritual importance		Importance for health		Environmental health benefits
Vill.Relig.	22.9	Population	15.4	Tribe	10.2	Age	8.7	Tribe	10.9
Pop’n	9.8	FT	12.5	Vill.Relig.	9.1	Res.Yr	8.1	Vill.Relig.	9.0
FT	6.2	Pop’n	10.0	Religion	8.8	Vill.Relig.	7.8	Rubber	7.8
Province	4.6	Res.Yr	7.2	Age	8.2	Intact5	7.3	Religion	7.8
Rice	3.4	Vill.Relig.	5.4	Rubber	8.0	Agroreg20	7.2	Age	7.1
Res.Yr	3.2	Fishing	5.0	Province	6.4	Mangrv20	7.2	Province	6.1
Age	3.1	Agroreg20	3.7	Pop’n	5.5	Indtim10	5.3	Pop’	4.9
Agroreg10	3.0	Logged20	3.7	Agroreg20	4.0	Oilpalm3	4.8	FT	3.9
Agroreg5	2.9	Province	3.5	FT	3.0	Agroreg10	4.1	Res.Yr	3.6
Hunting	2.9	Otherlc20	3.4	Mangrv20	2.9	Intact3	3.7	Agroreg20	3.5
r = 0.82		r = 0.70		Acc. = 0.89		Acc. = 0.90		r = 0.48

Hunting, Rice, Rubber, Fishing refer to predominant activities of the village. Religion refers to individual respondent’s religion. Vill.Relig. refers to composition of religion in the village. Age = age of respondent. FT = time spent in the forest (see Methods). Res.Yr = number of years the respondent has lived in the village. Pop’n = number of individuals per village. Schools = number of schools per village.

^*For abbreviations of land use classes and area radius, e.g. Agroreg5, see Table 1.