Predictor Importance Values for blue ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata)

Predictor Name Importance Score Rank
Annual precipitation (mm)10.293
Mean May-September precipitation (mm)7.5617
Mean annual temperature (°C)7.4218
Mean May-September temperature (°C)7.1425
Mean temperature of coldest month (°C)7.1326
Mean temperature of warmest month (°C)7.2623
Annual aridity index4.6437
Minimum elevation7.9415
Maximum elevation6.1432
Average elevation7.3919
Median elevation5.3834
Range of elevation8.3212
Elevation coefficient ofvariation8.6211
Elevation standard deviation7.1524
Annual daylength coefficient of variation5.235
Total available water capacity (cm, to 150 cm)8.8110
Total available water supply (cm, to 150 cm)7.2722
Depth to water table (cm)7.9316
Soil permeability rate (cm/hr)5.8633
Soil calcium carbonate (% by weight)10.352
Soil cation-exchange capacity6.9327
Soil pH9.068
Soil bulk density (g/cm3)12.721
Organic matter content (% by weight)9.954
Potential soil productivity6.7429
Soil erodibility factor, rock fragment free7.3520
Soil erosion by wind (tons/acre/year)9.655
Percent soil passing sieve No. 10 (coarse)6.1631
Percent soil passing sieve No. 200 (fine)9.636
Percent clay (< 0.002 mm size)8.999
Percent sand (< 0.002 mm size)7.9714
Percent silt (< 0.002 mm size)6.2130
Percent of texture clayey3.8640
Percent of texture loamy6.8428
Percent of texture sandy9.277
Percent of texture other3.8141
Alfisol (%)4.7736
Aridisol (%)045
Entisol (%)4.3639
Histosol (%)3.5442
Inceptisol (%)7.3421
Mollisol (%)4.6138
Spodosol (%)1.2544
Ultisol (%)8.0613
Vertisol (%)1.9543