Research Article

Forecasting the Influence of Climate Change on Agroecosystem Services: Potential Impacts on Honey Yields in a Small-Island Developing State

Table 2

Results of stepwise multiple regressions with predictors retained in each of the four predictive models of honey production.

Model
Model parameter
1
(all years and municipalities)
2
(all years but not all municipalities)
3
(yearly average and all municipalities)
4
(yearly average but not all municipalities)

Intercept 3.6328 4.6138 5.1130 6.3048
Isothermality (Bio 3) −0.0099
Temperature seasonality (Bio 4)−0.0021−0.0043−0.0037−0.0083
Maximum temperature of warmest month (Bio 5) 0.1130
Minimum temperature of coldest month (Bio 6) 0.0715 0.0594
Mean temperature of wettest quarter (Bio 8)−0.0647−0.0688−0.2382−0.1863
Precipitation of wettest month (Bio 13) 0.0004 0.0039 0.0012
Precipitation seasonality (Bio 15) −0.0285
Precipitation of driest quarter (Bio 17) −0.0033
Precipitation of warmest quarter (Bio 18) −0.0009
P <0.001<0.001<0.001<0.001
R 2 0.1903 0.1847 0.5276 0.4984