Table 3.

Principal component analysis scores for the environmental variables (axis 1).

Variable	PC1 score
Total monthly precipitation	0.11
Variation of monthly precipitation (SD)	0.21
Range of monthly precipitation	0.21
Precipitation of the wettest month	0.18
Precipitation of the driest month	−0.28
Mean precipitation of wettest annual quarter	0.18
Mean precipitation of driest annual quarter	−0.27
Mean of monthly mean temperature	0.27
Variation of monthly mean temperature (SD)	−0.26
Range of monthly temperature	−0.24
Maximum temperature of the warmest month	−0.01
Minimum temperature of the coldest month	0.28
Mean of monthly maximum temperature	0.25
Variation of monthly maximum temperature (SD)	−0.26
Mean of monthly minimum temperature	0.28
Variation of monthly minimum temperature (SD)	−0.26
Mean temperature of warmest annual quarter	0.20
Mean temperature of coldest annual quarter	0.29

In bold, scores higher than 0.25 in absolute value.