What makes a successful species? Traits facilitating survival in altered tropical forests

BMC Ecology

Table 4 Importance of each variable in Random Forest analysis

Variable	Complete	D vs. SD	D vs. NR	D vs. I	I vs. NR
SVL females	6.73	3.41	3.42	2.15	2.08
Adult habitat	4.70	3.23	3.64	0.91	2.37
Sexual dimorphism	9.02	4.00	2.98	2.63	2.59
Clutch size category	6.15	3.49	3.39	4.20	2.63
Egg deposition site	1.13	1.04	0.46	0.50	0.48
Reproductive mode	0.14	0.47	0.07	0.10	0.14
Larval habitat	3.46	2.63	2.10	0.89	1.12
Region	4.54	4.95	2.62	2.11	1.58
Range size	12.52	5.91	7.52	3.27	3.06
Elevational range	8.59	3.37	6.81	2.23	2.87

Importance of each variable per Random Forest analysis (complete data set and different subsets); the four most important variables contributing to the classification are in italics; analysis were performed with ntree = 1000, mtry = 3 and sampsize adjusted based on the smallest sample size for each analysis respectively (R package ‘randomForest’); forest dependency index: D dependent (n = 33), SD slightly dependent (n = 108), NR non-responding (n = 83), I forest independent (n = 19)

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