Identifying the key biophysical drivers, connectivity outcomes, and metapopulation consequences of larval dispersal in the sea

Table 3 Mean importance values for each model input parameter across all ensembles (values plotted as grey vertical bars in Fig. 3)

Parameter	LR^*	SR	H	mdG^*	mxG	S	dC	Cw^*	λ_M ^*	λ_max	Mean
R²	0.66	0.80	0.84	0.86	0.89	0.88	0.88	0.89	0.79	0.81	0.83
RO	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.18	0.03	0.38	0.00	0.07
A	0.28	0.05	0.20	0.01	0.05	0.70	0.56	0.76	0.63	0.46	0.37
B	0.00	0.03	0.09	0.01	0.03	0.01	0.13	0.04	0.01	0.02	0.04
PreP	0.32	0.39	0.16	0.34	0.07	0.30	0.20	0.30	0.30	0.42	0.28
ComR	0.09	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.07	0.03
DevP	0.02	0.06	0.07	0.15	0.06	0.00	0.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.04
iFV	0.15	0.29	0.15	0.41	0.18	0.02	0.08	0.03	0.02	0.04	0.14
K	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.06	0.02
Sp	0.16	0.17	0.42	0.14	0.26	0.15	0.28	0.04	0.15	0.09	0.19
TD	0.05	0.10	0.07	0.08	0.05	0.03	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.02	0.04
HmD	0.03	0.08	0.07	0.08	0.07	0.15	0.02	0.04	0.03	0.04	0.06
PLD	0.50	0.56	0.55	0.50	0.67	0.18	0.32	0.17	0.19	0.50	0.41

Importance values greater than 10 % are bolded. The mean R² values from the regression tree analysis are reported per response variable in the first row. Selected parameters (marked with *) are presented in the Figures