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. 2014 Apr 7;9(4):e92950. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092950

Table 1. Environmental variables used for Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) for jaguar at Caatinga biome, Brazil.

Variables Dataset name Spatial Resolution Year Source
Land cover GlobCover Land Cover version v2.3 300 meters 2009 ESA GlobCover 2009 Project
Elevation Global elevation data 30 arc-second 2004 NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
Distance from water Gradient distance from vetor map from water 1∶5,000,000 2004 Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)
Bioclimatic variables Bio1 = Annual mean temperature 30 arc second 2005 Data layers from Worldclim global climate variables
Bio2 = Mean diurnal range*
Bio5 = Max temperature of warmest month
Bio6 = Min temperature of coldest month
Bio12 = Annual precipitation
Bio13 = Precipitation of wettest month
Bio14 = Precipitation of driest month

*mean of monthly (max temp - min temp).