Supporting information from: Chorotypes, zones for the conservation of Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of El Salvador

Ecological niche models and species distribution models (SDM) are tools that can define a species’ niche based on presence records and identify those areas where appropriate ecological conditions converge as zones of potential distribution for the species. SDMs help to optimize conservation efforts, particularly important in countries with ecological and economical problems.
We constructed SDMs by means of the Maxent algorithm for 160 species of scarab beetles (Scarabaeoidea) to identify chorotypes and important zones for conservation in El Salvador, and to evaluate richness representativity within the System of Protected Natural Areas (SANP).
The chorotypes were identified with UPGMA method, with a matrix of presence-absence in ≈3 km², and important zones for conservation were identified with the Zonation algorithm. The richness representation in the SANP was done with EstimateS, comparing the estimated by Chao 2 ± confidence intervals (95%) in the same number of cells (n = 811).
We id..., , , # Supporting information: Chorotypes, zones for the conservation of Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of El Salvador

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## Description of the data and file structure

This is the detailed description of the methods to cull species from the study group, process information, and select the calibration area, and the detailed description of the methods for construction, calibration, evaluation, and selection of species distribution models of 168 scarab species from El Salvador. Besides the list of the Candidate variables for generating the species distribution models for Scarabaeoidea in El Salvador and the variables used to model the potential distribution of each species and the detailed results obtained through this process. Finally, three complementaries results are presented: Detailed results of the ecological niche and species distribution modelling of each species, list of species i...