“…To build the model, the authors referred to the protocols suggested by various studies (Bradie & Leung,2017;Halvorsen 2013;Kaky et al,2020;Zhang et al, 2019), and selected several basic environmental factors, including terrain, vegetation, human disturbance variables, and climate data (Table 1), which are widely available for many locations around the world. MaxENT was adopted to develop the models (Elith et al, 2011;Phillips & Dudík, 2008), as it is a widely applied method to predict species distributions and proven to be reliable for numerous taxa (Kumar & Stohlgren, 2009;Onojeghuo et al, 2015;Khadka et al, 2017;Thapa et al, 2018). Before running MaxENT, all relevant accessible factors in the dataset were given full consideration and transformed into raster format (90m × 90m), using UTM coordination system.…”