Climate change implications for the distribution of the babesiosis and anaplasmosis tick vector, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus

Table 1 **Climate variables used in ecological niche modeling of current and future potential distributions ofRhipicephalus(*Boophilus)microplus***

Acronym	Description	% variable contribution
Bio1^a	Annual mean temperature	26.6
Bio2	Mean diurnal range
Bio3	Isothermality
Bio4^a	Temperature seasonality	21.4
Bio5	Maximum temperature of warmest month
Bio6	Minimum temperature of coldest month
Bio7	Temperature annual range
Bio8^b	Mean temperature of wettest quarter
Bio9^b	Mean temperature of driest quarter
Bio10	Mean temperature of warmest quarter
Bio11	Mean temperature of coldest quarter
Bio12^a	Annual precipitation	14.6
Bio13	Precipitation of wettest month
Bio14^a	Precipitation of driest month	19.2
Bio15	Precipitation seasonality
Bio16	Precipitation of wettest quarter
Bio17	Precipitation of driest quarter
Bio18^b	Precipitation of warmest quarter
Bio19^b	Precipitation of coldest quarter
RH^a	Relative humidity	18.1

Bioclimatic variables from the WorldClim data archive (version 1.4; Hijmans et al. [41]) and relative humidity [44] were used for modeling. Five variables^a were selected for modelling via our model selection processing [47].
^bVariables excluded because they have unrealistic spatial artefacts [42].

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