**7. Appendix 1.**

Variables included in species distribution models:

Vegetation cover: Globcover-Ionia (http://ionia1.esrin.esa.int/)

Mean annual temperature, minimum and maximum annual temperature, minimum and maximum mouthy precipitation, total annual precipitation, isothermality: www.worldclim.org

Humidity: New et al. 1999 (http://atlas.sage.wisc.edu/)

Elevation: NGDC http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/globe.html)

Soil pH :ISRIC-WISE (www.isric.org/)

