Table 4. Means, standard errors (SE) and results of independent-Sample t-test on the 19 BioClim factors of the two regions (the QLM, HDM-YGP) for the LIG and LGM periods.

Independent-Sample t-test		bio1	bio2	bio3	bio4	bio5	bio6	bio7	bio8	bio9	bio10	bio11	bio12	bio13	bio14	bio15	bio16	bio17	bio18	bio19
		(°C)	(°C)	(°C)	(SD*100)	(°C)	(°C)	(°C)	(°C)	(°C)	(°C)	(°C)	(mm)	(mm)	(mm)	(mm)	(mm)	(mm)	(mm)	(mm)
QLM
LIG	Mean	10.4	10.5	2.7	985.1	29.8	-8.4	38.3	14.3	1.0	22.8	-2.8	289.4	162.3	0.0	198.9	231.0	0.0	40.3	0.0
	SE	1.3	0.5	0.2	36.9	1.7	1.3	0.8	1.0	0.9	1.7	0.9	46.7	12.9	0.0	13.4	26.7	0.0	23.0	0.0
LGM	Mean	8.1	11.9	3.7	695.7	23.5	-8.9	32.3	16.0	-1.4	16.7	-1.4	541.1	103.6	2.5	80.9	282.4	10.5	273.1	10.5
	SE	1.1	0.6	0.1	22.1	1.3	1.3	0.8	1.2	0.9	1.4	0.9	46.8	8.8	0.5	1.3	23.7	1.8	24.5	1.8
	P	0.186	0.087	0.001	0.000	0.010	0.826	0.000	0.302	0.079	0.015	0.332	0.002	0.002	0.001	0.000	0.172	0.001	0.000	0.001
HDM-YGP
LIG	Mean	14.3	11.3	3.6	652.5	29.2	-1.6	30.8	20.7	8.5	21.6	5.5	894.8	247.9	0.0	115.7	620.3	5.6	440.7	18.3
	SE	0.5	0.3	0.1	15.8	0.5	0.7	0.3	0.5	0.9	0.5	0.6	27.2	7.2	0.0	2.6	19.2	1.2	25.0	3.4
LGM	Mean	11.7	11.2	4.5	486.6	22.6	-2.3	24.9	17.1	5.1	17.3	4.9	1098.5	229.5	10.6	85.1	618.8	40.1	608.2	40.7
	SE	0.6	0.3	0.1	14.9	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.5	0.8	0.5	0.8	41.6	9.3	1.1	1.7	25.4	3.5	26.9	3.4
	P	0.002	0.889	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.508	0.000	0.000	0.006	0.000	0.539	0.000	0.122	0.000	0.000	0.963	0.000	0.000	0.000

Significantly different: P<0.05; significant P values were given in bold print.