Multi-scale habitat selection and impacts of climate change on the distribution of four sympatric meso-carnivores using random forest algorithm

Ecological Processes

Table 1 The set of 40 predictor variables used in multi-scale habitat modeling of Indian fox, golden jackal, jungle cat, and Asiatic wildcat at most influential spatial scale. All the variables were resampled at the spatial resolution of 90 m. The LULC layer was obtained from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing for the year 2005

Variable type	Variable	Indian fox	Golden jackal	Jungle cat	Asiatic wildcat
Topographic	Elevation	3000	1000	2500	5000
	Slope	5000	1000	2500	4000
	Aspect	3000	3500	5000	3500
	Terrain roughness	2000	4000	1000	5000
	River density	1000, 2000, 3000	1000, 2000, 3000	1000, 2000, 3000	1000, 2000, 3000
Bio-climatic	Bio1	2500	3500	1500	3500
	Bio2	1000	4000	500	5000
	Bio3	5000	1000	3500	4000
	Bio4	5000	1500	3000	4000
	Bio5	2500	4000	3500	1500
	Bio6	500	3500	4500	4000
	Bio7	3000	500	4500	1000
	Bio8	2000	3500	4000	5000
	Bio9	2000	2000	2000	1500
	Bio10	1500	5000	1000	4500
	Bio11	3500	3000	5000	4500
	Bio12	1500	5000	500	2500
	Bio13	3000	1000	1000	2000
	Bio14	4000	3500	500	1500
	Bio15	5000	4000	5000	500
	Bio16	500	1000	500	5000
	Bio17	500	1000	1500	1000
	Bio18	4000	3000	2000	2000
	Bio19	5000	500	3500	500
	Actual evapotranspiration (summer)	2500	1000	3500	3500
	Actual evapotranspiration (wet)	1500	3000	2500	2000
	Actual evapotranspiration (winter)	3000	5000	2000	5000
Landscape composition	Sal dominated	4500	3000	2500	1500
	Sal mix	3500	3000	2000	3500
	Dry deciduous	5000	2500	5000	2500
	Moist deciduous	4000	2000	3500	1000
	Degraded	1500	4500	3500	5000
	Scrub	4000	5000	5000	5000
Vegetation	NDVI (summer)	5000	4500	5000	500
	NDVI (winter)	3500	2500	2500	2000
	NDVI (wet)	3500	3000	3000	2000
Human influenced	Human settlements	2500	3000	4500	4500
	Human population density	5000	2000	1000	3500
	Road density	1000, 2000, 3000	1000, 2000, 3000	1000, 2000, 3000	1000, 2000, 3000
	Farmlands (croplands)	4000	4500	5000	1000

Predictor variables are classified in five groups (topographic, climatic, landscape composition, vegetation and human influenced). Road and river density were calculated at three different spatial scales (1, 2, 3 km). The future projections of bioclimatic variables were downloaded from WorldClim data website (https://worldclim.org/data/index.html). The actual evapotranspiration data was downloaded from MODIS website (https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/mod16.php). The population density data for India was downloaded from WorldPop website (https://www.worldpop.org/).