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Table 2 Specifics and sources of the environmental data used for habitat suitability modelling

From: Modelling the spatial and seasonal distribution of suitable habitats of schistosomiasis intermediate host snails using Maxent in Ndumo area, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

Variables Data source Resolution Reference
Rainfall UCSB 5 km ftp://ftp.chg.ucsb.edu/pub/org/chg/products/CHIRPS-2.0/
Tmax USGS 1 km http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/mod11.php
Tmin USGS 1 km http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/mod11.php
Slope NASA 1 km http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm
Soil pH ISRIC-WISE 1 km http://www.isric.org
NDVI USGS 250 m http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/mod13.php
EVI USGS 250 m http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/mod13.php
  1. Abbreviations: T max maximum temperature, T min minimum temperature, NDVI Normalised Difference Vegetation Index, EVI Enhanced Vegetation Index, UCSB University of California Santa Barbara, USGS United States Geological Survey, NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ISRIC-WISE International Soil Reference and Information Centre - World Inventory of Soil Emission Potentials
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