Where to deliver baits for deworming urban red foxes for Echinococcus multilocularis control: new protocol for micro-habitat modeling of fox denning requirements

Table 4 Comparison of the models’ discriminating abilities among the variable types

Type of modeling variable	Obihiro			Sapporo
Type of modeling variable	Selected variables	Model AUC	Model R²	Selected variables	Model AUC	Model R²
Percentages of landscape features* (best model)	WROAD	0.987	0.781	WROAD	0.995	0.904
	NROAD			RIVER
	OCPBL			OCPBL
	GREEN			GREEN
				L-river
	L-river			L-ocpbl
Linear distance	L-green	0.722	0.128	L-vctbl	0.881	0.298
				L-farm
				L-blank
Single point habitat	n/a**	-	-	n/a**	-	-

*The values are shown for the best model of each study area.
**Single point habitat is not applicable as the predictor variable for modeling because this variable is univariate.

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