MOESM9 of Modeling future wildlife habitat suitability: serious climate change impacts on the potential distribution of the Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta japonica in Japanâs northern Alps
Additional file 9: Figure S4. Importance of climatic and topographic variables for three alpine plant communities in sub-model B2 (random forest). The importance of each variable was identified based on increased mean square errors (increased MSE; Breiman 2001).