Table 2. Percent contribution of the 15 predictors to New England cottontail (NEC) and eastern cottontail (EC) Maxent models in Connecticut. The morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) predictor, a categorical predictor, contained background, core, core opening, margin, fragment, edge, and perforation. Background was the area where young forest, shrubland, and understory habitat was absent. In the foreground, core was interior area, edge was the external perimeter of core, fragments were areas too small to contain core area, and margin was continuous area that did not fit into any other category. Core openings were background classes found within core areas and perforations were the perimeter of those core openings.