Modeling the distribution of the West Nile and Rift Valley Fever vector Culex pipiens in arid and semi-arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa

Table 4 Contribution of environmental parameters to SDMs including human population data

Parameter	BRT variable importance	Maxent variable importance	Maxent permutation importance	BRT rank	Maxent rank
Population	34.9	60.6	52.8	1	1
EVIMEAN	11.1	7.5	0.8	2	3
Bio8	9.1	6.1	0.5	3	5
EVIMAX	8.7	3.5	1.0	4	6
Bio12	8.4	6.2	3.4	5	4
EVISD	8.4	11.9	39.1	6	2
Bio4	7.1	1.2	1.3	7	8
Bio6	6.7	2.4	0.0	8	7
Bio7	5.6	0.7	1.0	9	9

Contribution of environmental parameters (Table 1) to species distribution models for Culex pipiens generated using boosted regression trees (BRT) and maximum entropy (Maxent) methods.

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