*2.3. Running MaxEnt and Creating Consensus Models*

The nineteen spatially rarefied occurrences along with the ten low correlated bioclimatic variables were inputted in MaxEnt (version 3.4.1) using default parameters and the bootstrap function. Furthermore, a jackknife test was included to assess the contributions of the bioclimatic variables to the model, twenty replicates were run for the current scenario and for each of the three general circulation models at 4.5 and 8.5 RCP for the years 2050 and 2070 [37]. Consensus models were produced from the twenty replicates following the works of Marmion et al. (2008) [42]. Each consensus model was then converted into a binary model using the reclassify tool and the "Fixed Cumulative Value 10" threshold acquired from the MaxEnt results since it was a low threshold value which resulted in a wider distribution for *M. walkerae* and close to zero omission error [43].
