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Table 1 Climatic variables associated with presence records of Lutzomyia intermedia and Lutzomyia neivai

From: Species-specific ecological niche modelling predicts different range contractions for Lutzomyia intermedia and a related vector of Leishmania braziliensis following climate change in South America

 

Lutzomyia intermedia

Lutzomyia neivai

Differencea

 

Min.

Median

Mean

Max.

Min.

Median

Mean

Max.

W

P

Annual mean temperature (°C)

16.5

22.8

22.41

27.6

15.9

21.1

21.05

25.1

55,316

< 0.001

Diurnal range of temperature (°C)

6.3

10.55

10.57

14.2

7.2

12.3

12

15

19,292

< 0.001

Temperature seasonality (standard deviation)

4

19.56

19.48

33.44

2.93

28.83

36.66

50.98

10,558

< 0.001

Annual precipitation (mm)

601

1324

1368

2525

567

1345

1320

2013

38,144

0.918

Precipitation seasonality (coefficient of variation)

14

62

61.87

104

6

46

50.31

95

49,294

< 0.001

Precipitation of warmest quarter (mm)

18

488

497.3

948

198

487

490.5

782

39,243

0.489

  1. aStatistical significance given by Wilcoxon rank sum tests (W)