Summarized results for a General Linear Model explaining the number of infectious diseases with epidemics (total, zoonotic and vector-borne) in Asia-Pacific.

Initial variables were: nation area size, population size, richness of bird and mammal species, number of threatened vertebrate species, proportion of forest, mean temperature, mean precipitation, surveys, GDP and health expenditure. Selection of the best models was based on AIC criterion (see all models in File S2). Selected variables are ranked by increasing contribution to the model (F value). The multicollinearity among independent variables is assessed by the variance inflated factor (VIF).