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Appendix A. Bioclimatic conditions across study plots.
Table A1. Mean and standard deviation across the 14 study plots for 19 bioclimatic variables from Hijmans et al. (2005) used in principal components analysis (PCA) to account for environmental variation. Temperature-related variables are given in degrees Celsius*10 and precipitation-related variables in millimeters.
Bioclimatic variable |
Mean |
Standard deviation |
BIO1: Annual Mean Temperature |
214 |
22 |
BIO2: Mean Diurnal Range (Mean of monthly (max temp - min temp)) |
97 |
6 |
BIO3: Isothermality (BIO2/BIO7) (*100) |
59 |
1 |
BIO4: Temperature Seasonality (standard deviation *100) |
1619 |
158 |
BIO5: Max Temperature of Warmest Month |
296 |
25 |
BIO6: Min Temperature of Coldest Month |
133 |
26 |
BIO7: Temperature Annual Range (BIO5-BIO6) |
163 |
11 |
BIO8: Mean Temperature of Wettest Quarter |
208 |
23 |
BIO9: Mean Temperature of Driest Quarter |
207 |
26 |
BIO10: Mean Temperature of Warmest Quarter |
235 |
23 |
BIO11: Mean Temperature of Coldest Quarter |
192 |
25 |
BIO12: Annual Precipitation |
1001 |
202 |
BIO13: Precipitation of Wettest Month |
213 |
16 |
BIO14: Precipitation of Driest Month |
15 |
11 |
BIO15: Precipitation Seasonality (Coefficient of Variation) |
71 |
10 |
BIO16: Precipitation of Wettest Quarter |
444 |
51 |
BIO17: Precipitation of Driest Quarter |
51 |
34 |
BIO18: Precipitation of Warmest Quarter |
230 |
47 |
BIO19: Precipitation of Coldest Quarter |
182 |
51 |
Literature cited
Hijmans, R. J., S. E. Cameron, J. L. Parra, P. G. Jones, and A. Jarvis. 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 25:1965–1978.