Geographic range size patterns across plants and animals of Xinjiang, China

LiPing Li,ChunYan Zhang,Eimear Nic Lughadha,Tarciso C. C. Leão,Kate Hardwick,YaoMin Zheng,HuaWei Wan,Ming Ma,Nurbay Abudusalih,Hai Ying,Pu Zhen,JiangShan Lai,ZhanFeng Shen,Liu Li,Tuo Wang,YangMing Jiang,HuiHui Zhao,QingJie Liu

Table 2 Relative importance of the variables (values are relative to the largest, set to 1.00) to predict the species range area, according to the increase in node purity with a random forest analysis. Values ≥0.6 are in bold

Variables Plant: log2(RA) Mammal: log2(RA) Bird: RA MAT 0.53 0.60 0.62 Temperature seasonality 0.58 0.45 0.45 MAP 0.68 0.76 0.56 Precipitation seasonality 0.80 0.62 0.77 log2(height), log2(weight) 0.15 0.10 0.32 Altitudinal range 0.77 0.51 0.45 EVI 1.00 1.00 1.00