Table 2. Environmental predictors of the LDG of benthic polychaetes along the SEP.

		Conditional random forest		Phylogenetic signal
Proxy	VIF	Conditional importance	p-value	K	p-value
Median lat. range	6.26	831.525	0.0001	0.307	0.003
SST	9.33	732.814	0.0001	0.332	0.001
Salinity	3.71	541.348	0.0001	0.274	0.725
SST range	3.18	217.978	0.0227	0.290	0.162
Primary productivity	2.81	149.033	0.0805	0.301	0.007
Salinity range	1.88	129.715	0.0822	0.286	0.215
Shelf area	1.64	58.671	0.2966	–	–

Note:

These predictors are proxies of different hypotheses grouped into three categories (sensu Pontarp et al., 2019). Also shown are their level of collinearity (variance inflation factor, VIF), variable importance according a conditional random forest analysis and their phylogenetic signal (Blomberg’s K). Statistically significant results and their respective p-values are shown in bold.