Climate, land cover and topography: essential ingredients in predicting wetland permanence

We built models to compare the relative influence of climate, land cover/land use and topography on wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region of Alberta. To represent these three drivers, we used 19 variables, which were selected based on a literature review; following, we excluded variables that had more than a 0.8 correlation. Here, we prove: 1) the data we used for all three models and 2) our R code for parameter optimization and model building. We share the code using a Jupyter notebook, and the data are in he form of an csv file. In t the data, the column "Level" indicates whether the data was used in the training vs Test, and the column Region, indicates which of the three Natural Regions that data belong to.