Table 1 Explanatory variables included in the habitat preference model derived from the combination of a land cover map (LCM), LiDAR, a digital elevation model (DEM), Copernicus Land Cover Services (CLCS), and OpenStreetMap data. Coniferous trees and Broadleaved trees covers were split into four variables according to the percentage of tree canopy cover (TCC) to differentiate forest closures. The Unsuitable areas variable is composed of three land cover classes (urban areas, water bodies, and bare soil) with very few lynx GPS locations
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Variables | Land cover class (regional LCM) | TCC (LiDAR) | Shrub canopy cover (LiDAR) | Slope (DEM) | Dominant Leaf type (CLCS) | Dataset | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unsuitable areas | Urban areas, water bodies, and bare soil | – | – |  | – | Regional Land Cover Map | |
Intensive crops | Irrigated herbaceous crops | – | – |  | – | ||
Extensive crops | Dry herbaceous crops | – | – |  | – | ||
Agroforestry | Agroforestry areas | > 25% | >  25% |  | – | Regional Land Cover Map, LiDAR | |
Lowland olive groves | Permanent woody crops | – | – | < 20% | – | Regional Land Cover Map, DEM | |
Mountain olive groves | – | – | > 20% | – | |||
Grasslands and Pastures | Forest and Pastures | <  5% | <  5% |  | – | Regional Land Cover Map, LiDAR | |
Shrublands | <  5% | >  5% |  | – | |||
Coniferous trees | Low TCC | 5–25% | – |  | Coniferous | Regional Land Cover Map, LiDAR, CLCS | |
Low-intermediate TCC | 26–50% | – |  | ||||
Intermediate-high TCC | 51–75% | – |  | ||||
High TCC | >  75% | – |  | ||||
Broadleaved trees | Low TCC | 5–25% | – |  | Broadleaved | ||
Low-intermediate TCC | 26–50% | – |  | ||||
Intermediate-high TCC | 51–75% | – |  | ||||
High TCC | >  75% | – |  | ||||
High-traffic roads | – | – | – |  | – | Open Street Map | |
Low-traffic roads | – | – | – |  | – | ||