Results of the simultaneous auto-regressive (SAR) error models of feliform and caniform species richness against environmental (ENV) predictors or these plus species richness of the competing group (Env + Feliformia).

Spatial simultaneous autoregressive (SAR) error models were run for feliform species richness against all our environmental predictors (Acronyms as in Table 1), and the same was done for caniform species richness. Caniform species richness was furthermore modelled against all environmental predictors and feliform species richness, though here not showing feliform species richness as a significant predictor of their species richness. Significance codes:*** (p** (p* (p0.05).