Modeling of potential habitat suitability of Hippocamelus bisulcus: effectiveness of a protected areas network in Southern Patagonia

Ecological Processes

Table 2 Model outputs of the habitat suitability of huemul, where brackets in the eigenvalues present the specialization values

Eigenvectors	E1	E2	E3	E4
AMT	0.03	−0.94	−0.20	−0.65
MINCM	−0.05	0.32	−0.92	0.05
AP	0.35	0.08	−0.07	0.28
SLO	0.27	0.00	−0.01	−0.09
ASP	0.08	−0.01	0.02	−0.14
DR	0.00	−0.01	−0.34	0.59
NPP	0.31	0.02	−0.01	0.02
DES	−0.06	−0.06	−0.02	0.34
ED	0.59	0.02	−0.02	−0.04
TF	0.59	0.00	0.00	−0.01
Eigenvalues	1.56 (0.07)	16.18 (0.75)	1.29 (0.06)	0.98 (0.05)

AMT annual mean temperature (°C), MINCM minimum temperature of the coldest month (°C), AP mean annual precipitation (mm year⁻¹), SLO slope (%), ASP north–south aspect (cosine of degrees), DR distance to rivers (km), NPP net primary productivity (gr C m⁻² year⁻¹), DES desertification degree, ED forest edge density (m ha⁻¹), TF forest occurrence