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. 2018 Jul 25;8:11231. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-29395-6

Table 1.

Environmental variables used for species distribution modeling (see electronic supplementary file S2).

Variable (abbrev.) Ecology Units Value range Source
Elevation (elev) Topography m (−74.91, 4066.31) ASTER GDEM
Slope (slope) Topography radians (0, 0.52) terrain function in R package raster
Absolute depth to bedrock (d2b) Soil cm (0.00, 65155.67) SoilGrids106
Bulk density of fine earth (bd) Soil kg/m3; depth: 30 cm (1037.29, 1749.79) SoilGrids
Coarse fragment volume (cfv) Soil percent (%); depth: 30 cm (0.00, 62.11) SoilGrids
Wettest quarter mean temperature (Nov–Jan) (bio8) Climate °C (−7.96, 33.20) WorldClim v2107
Driest quarter mean temperature (April–June) (bio9) Climate °C (−4.17 33.01) WorldClim v2
Wettest quarter mean precipitation (Nov–Jan) (bio16) Climate mm (19.0, 556.3) WorldClim v2
Driest quarter mean precipitation (April–June) (bio17) Climate mm (0.00, 116.55) WorldClim v2
Vegetation coverage during the summer (June 2006) (vegS) VegetationS NDVI (−0.20, 0.86) eMODIS
Vegetation coverage during the winter (Feb 2005) (vegW) VegetationW NDVI (−0.19, 0.93) eMODIS

Elevation and vegetation data were downloaded from https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov; soil data were downloaded from https://www.soilgrids.org; and climate data was downloaded from http://www.worldclim.org. ASTER: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, GDEM: Global Digital Elevation Map, eMODIS: EROS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index.