Table 5. Suitable area (MaxEnt) and home range of wild Asian elephant herds with Minimum Convex Polygon (95% MCP) and Kernel Density Estimate (KDE) in the Phu Khieo wildlife Sanctuary between 2016 and 2019.
| Population habitat use | Herd No. (km2) | All Herd (km2) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Total area | Inside PKWS | ||
| Suitable area (MaxEnt) | 13.5 | 67.5 | 72 | 18 | 13.5 | 18 | 4.5 | 1,288.9 | N/A | |
| Most suitable | 2.2 | 10.4 | 7.3 | 2 | 9.9 | 9.8 | 4.5 | 672.3 | N/A | |
| Moderate suitable | 11.3 | 57.1 | 64.7 | 16 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 0 | 616.6 | N/A | |
| Lowest suitable | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.8 | 0 | 276.9 | N/A | |
| Forest type | ||||||||||
| Hill evergreen forest | N/A | |||||||||
| Mixed deciduous forest | N/A | |||||||||
| MCP (95%) | 13.5 | 67.5 | 72 | 18 | 13.5 | 18 | 4.5 | 1,098 | N/A | |
| Forest type | N/A | |||||||||
| Hill evergreen forest | N/A | |||||||||
| Mixed deciduous forest | N/A | |||||||||
| KDE | ||||||||||
| 95% | 58.9 | 118.2 | 100.1 | 69.9 | 127.1 | 65.9 | N/A | 3,131.9 | 1,554.9 | |
| 90% | 53.0 | 106.5 | 90.6 | 62.2 | 114.2 | 59.3 | N/A | 2,522.7 | 1,535.2 | |
| 50% | 33.7 | 68.8 | 59.1 | 38.9 | 70.9 | 38.6 | N/A | 8,70.3 | 826.5 | |
| Forest type with 95% KED | ||||||||||
| Hill evergreen forest | N/A | |||||||||
| Mixed deciduous forest | N/A | |||||||||
Notes.
Habitat suitability area ranged from 0 to 1. Most suitable, most optimal habitat for wild Asian elephants ≥ 0.66 to 1; Moderate suitable, moderately optimal habitat for wild Asian elephants ≥ 0.33 to 0.6; Lowest suitable, suboptimal habitat for wild Asian elephants ≥ 0 to 0.33; N/A, not analyzed.