Table 1.
Environmental variables.
Figure 1.
Feliform species richness distribution in a Behrmann Equal Area projection of 5° equivalents (482 km×482 km) grid size, with the tropics marked.
Figure 2.
Caniformia species richness distribution in a Behrmann Equal Area projection of 5° equivalents (482 km×482 km) grid size, with the tropics marked.
Figure 3.
Latitudinal Carnivora species richness distribution.
The average number of species for both Feliformia and Caniformia was calculated on each latitudinal height, in 5 degree grid-cells, for both the New World, the Old World and combined. Islands and areas with lower than 50% land was excluded.
Figure 4.
The residual number of species per cell of the ordinary least squares (OLS) models of the clade species richness against the environmental predictors.
Plotted against a latitudinal gradient for both the Caniformia and Feliformia models run on all environmental predictors.
Table 2.
Results of the Ordinary-least-squares (OLS) multiple linear regression models of feliform and caniform species richness against environmental (ENV) predictors or these plus species richness of the competing group (Env + Feliformia).
Figure 5.
The residual number of species per cell of the spatial auto-regressive error (SAR) models of the clade species richness against the environmental predictors.
Plotted against a latitudinal gradient for both the Caniformia and Feliformia models run on all environmental predictors.
Table 3.
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).