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Modeling Rare Species Distribution at the Edge: The Case for the Vulnerable Endemic Pyrenean Desman in France Table 1 Selected variables (in bold) among the initial set of environmental variables with coefficient values of each and order of inclusion in the model (number between bracket).
Variables Spanish model French without latitude model French with latitude model Code (Barbosa et al. [1 ]) Present study Present study Mean altitude (m) Alti Alti (6) 0.0021Alti (6) 0.02967Alti250 (1) 0.00248 Mean slope (degrees) Slop Mean annual precipitation (mm) Prec Prec (1) 0.00077Prec (3) −0.002588Prec (3) −0.003152 Mean relative air humidity in January (%) HJan Mean relative air humidity in July (%) HJul HJul (4) −0.10HJul (4) −0.4211 Mean annual insolation (h/year) Inso Mean annual solar radiation (kwh/m²/day) SRad SRad (8) 0.013SRad (2) −153.6SRad (5) −43.11 Mean temperature in January (°C) TJan TJan (7) 0.43 Mean temperature in July (°C) TJul Mean annual temperature (°C) Temp Temp (2) −0.60Temp (1) 0.3106 Mean annual number of frost days (min T <0°C) DFro Mean annual potential evapotranspiration (mm) PET Mean annual actual evapotranspiration (mm) (=Min [PET, Prec] AET Maximum precipitation in 24 h (mm) MP24 Relative maximum precipitation (= MP24/prec) RMP Mean annual number of days with precipitation >0.1 mm DPre DPre (3) 0.0027DPre (5) 0.08299DPre (2) 0.1059 Annual temperature range (°C) (= TJul − TJan) TRan Annual relative air humidity range (°C) (= HJan − HJul) HRan Distance to the nearest highway (km) DHi Distance to the nearest town >100 000 hab (km) U100 Distance to the nearest town >500 000 hab (km) U500 Latitude (°N) Lati Lati (5) 1.13Lati (3) −8.826 Longitude (°E) Long Constant −44.63 Constant (481) Constant (496.9)
