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Table 4 List of the top 10 most important variables in the occurrence model

From: Modelling the spatial distribution of the nuisance mosquito species Anopheles plumbeus (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Netherlands

Rank

Variables

1

DEM

2

CMORPH precipitation, phase of bi-annual cycle

3

CMORPH precipitation, phase of annual cycle

4

Worldclim precipitation, phase of annual cycle

5

Worldclim precipitation, proportion of total variance due to annual cycle

6

MIR, phase of annual cycle

7

NTLS temperature, minimum value

8

DTLS temperature, amplitude of annual cycle

9

NDVI mean

10

CMORPH precipitation, maximum value

  1. The lowest ranking number indicates the most important variable (e.g., rankā€‰=ā€‰1 is the most important variable). The ranking is based on the mean decrease in Gini index.