Table 1.
Comparative performance of MaxEnt models in predicting species distribution of snow leopard and blue sheep
| Modeling scenarios | Regularization multiplier | Snow leopard | Blue sheep | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean AIC (SD) | Mean AICc (SD) | Mean BIC (SD) | Training AUC | Test AUC | Mean AIC (SD) | Mean AICc (SD) | Mean BIC (SD) | Training AUC | Test AUC | ||
| Normal | 0.5 | 7710 (12) | 7768 (20) | 8054 (35) | 0.94 | 0.94 | 4327 (19) | 4414 (48) | 4566 (53) | 0.95 | 0.93 |
| 1 | 7720 (16) | 7750 (21) | 7978 (39) | 0.94 | 0.93 | 4311 (11) | 4341 (16) | 4466 (23) | 0.94 | 0.93 | |
| 1.5 | 7732 (14) | 7750 (19) | 7931 (42) | 0.93 | 0.93 | 4313 (7) | 4330 (10) | 4433 (16) | 0.94 | 0.93 | |
| 2 | 7720 (12) | 7727 (14) | 7853 (30) | 0.93 | 0.93 | 4320 (12) | 4331 (15) | 4419 (24) | 0.94 | 0.92 | |
| 3 | 7717 (10) | 7720 (10) | 7801 (13) | 0.93 | 0.93 | 4333 (9) | 4337 (11) | 4399 (19) | 0.93 | 0.92 | |
| 4 | 7730 (11) | 7732 (11) | 7802 (15) | 0.93 | 0.93 | 4353 (9) | 4356 (10) | 4406 (17) | 0.92 | 0.91 | |
| 5 | 7742 (11) | 7744 (12) | 7808 (15) | 0.93 | 0.93 | 4361 (6) | 4362 (6) | 4398 (8) | 0.91 | 0.91 | |
| Bias | 0.5 | 7860 (17) | 7918 (22) | 8206 (33) | 0.93 | 0.92 | 4457 (22) | 4548 (48) | 4702 (49) | 0.93 | 0.91 |
| 1 | 7851 (20) | 7876 (23) | 8086 (35) | 0.93 | 0.92 | 4425 (18) | 4444 (22) | 4552 (29) | 0.92 | 0.90 | |
| 1.5 | 7847 (20) | 7859 (23) | 8017 (39) | 0.92 | 0.91 | 4428 (19) | 4439 (24) | 4524 (40) | 0.91 | 0.90 | |
| 2 | 7852 (21) | 7860 (22) | 7994 (33) | 0.92 | 0.91 | 4433 (14) | 4440 (16) | 4513 (26) | 0.90 | 0.89 | |
| 3 | 7855 (19) | 7859 (20) | 7951 (27) | 0.92 | 0.91 | 4431 (15) | 4435 (17) | 4489 (29) | 0.90 | 0.88 | |
| 4 | 7860 (17) | 7862 (17) | 7929 (19) | 0.92 | 0.91 | 4424 (12) | 4426 (13) | 4460 (17) | 0.89 | 0.88 | |
| 5 | 7873 (15) | 7874 (15) | 7932 (17) | 0.91 | 0.91 | 4425 (12) | 4426 (12) | 4455 (15) | 0.89 | 0.88 | |
| Spatial filtering | 0.5 | 3778 (18) | 3906 (58) | 4017 (45) | 0.94 | 0.91 | 2955 (12) | 3054 (33) | 3130 (24) | 0.95 | 0.92 |
| 1 | 3735 (9) | 3763 (14) | 3867 (19) | 0.93 | 0.91 | 2933 (11) | 2963 (21) | 3041 (28) | 0.94 | 0.92 | |
| 1.5 | 3724 (7) | 3738 (11) | 3820 (18) | 0.92 | 0.91 | 2934 (8) | 2951 (13) | 3019 (20) | 0.94 | 0.92 | |
| 2 | 3716 (9) | 3723 (11) | 3787 (20) | 0.92 | 0.91 | 2934 (8) | 2943 (11) | 2998 (18) | 0.94 | 0.92 | |
| 3 | 3709 (5) | 3713 (6) | 3758 (10) | 0.92 | 0.91 | 2943 (4) | 2947 (4) | 2985 (8) | 0.92 | 0.91 | |
| 4 | 3708 (4) | 3710 (4) | 3747 (9) | 0.92 | 0.91 | 2950 (5) | 2952 (5) | 2982 (7) | 0.92 | 0.90 | |
| 5 | 3706 (3) | 3708 (4) | 3739 (9) | 0.92 | 0.91 | 2957 (5) | 2959 (5) | 2988 (6) | 0.91 | 0.90 | |
MaxEnt models were run after 10‐fold cross‐validation, and AUC value shown is the average. Models were evaluated using AICc.