Genomic variation in the American pika: signatures of geographic isolation and implications for conservation

Table 2 Comparison of MRM tests predicting Nei’s genetic distance (D) among all 11 populations

Model	R²	P
Elevation + Geography + Climate 1 + Climate 2	0.716	0.005
Geography + Climate 1 + Climate 2	0.708	0.003
Elevation + Geography + Climate 2	0.695	0.002
Geography + Climate 2	0.678	0.002
Elevation + Climate 1 + Climate 2	0.673	0.001
Climate 1 + Climate 2	0.673	0.001
Elevation + Climate 2	0.538	0.005
Climate 2	0.538	0.002
Elevation + Geography + Climate 1	0.385	0.057
Elevation + Geography	0.384	0.038
Geography + Climate 1	0.342	0.026
Geography	0.342	0.009
Elevation + Climate 1	0.130	0.184
Climate 1	0.129	0.079
Elevation	0.000	0.960

The two climate variables correspond to the first two principal components from a PCA on 19 climate variables from BioClim, which explained 46.9 and 33.8 percent of the variance in the data, respectively (see Table S4 for loadings and Fig. S2 for relationships among predictor variables)

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