Table 1. Relative contributions of environmental variables in the modeling results.

Order Abbreviation Variable Class Explanation Contribution (%)
1 bio4 Bioclimatic Temperature Seasonality(standard deviation ×100) 19.2
2 gsp Bioclimatic Precipitation sum accumulated on all days during the growing season based on TREELIM(Paulsen and Körner, 2014) 8.1
3 srad Topographic Surface solar radiation 7.3
4 ocd Soil Organic carbon density 6.4
5 bio3 Bioclimatic Isothermality(Bio2/Bio7)(×100) 6.0
6 rough Topographic Surface roughness 5.9
7 bio2 Bioclimatic Mean diurnal air temperature range 5.3
8 npp Bioclimatic Net primary productivity 4.9
9 bio13 Bioclimatic Precipitation amount of the wettest month 4.4
10 bio15 Bioclimatic Precipitation seasonality 4.2
11 kg5 Bioclimatic Köppen-Geiger climate classification 5 3.4
12 bio14 Bioclimatic Precipitation amount of the driest month 3.1
13 kg0 Bioclimatic Köppen-Geiger climate classification 2.9
14 cfvo Soil Volumetric fraction of coarse fragments(>2 mm) 2.8
15 gst Bioclimatic Mean temperature of all growing season days based on TREELIM(Paulsen and Körner, 2014) 2.5
16 kg4 Bioclimatic Köppen-Geiger climate classification 4 2.2
17 phh2o Soil Soil pH 2.2
18 sand Soil Proportion of sand particles(> 0.05/0.063 mm) in the fine earth fraction 1.5
19 silt Soil Proportion of silt particles(≥0.002 mm and ≤ 0.05/0.063 mm) in the fine earth fraction 1.5
20 wavg Soil Soil water retention(Weighted average) 1.5
21 bdod Soil Bulk density of the fine earth fraction 1.2
22 elev Topographic Elevation 1.1
23 kg2 Bioclimatic Köppen-Geiger climate classification 2 1.0
24 soc Soil Soil organic carbon content in the fine earth fraction 0.9
25 kg3 Bioclimatic Köppen-Geiger climate classification 3 0.6