2.2 Species occurrence data
The occurrence data for the grey wolf and golden jackal were obtained through direct observation and game wardens of the Markazi Department of Environment (hereafter, Markazi DoE, 2016) from 2000 to 2019. To address the effects of spatial bias due to uneven sampling efforts, we calculated the global Moran’s I test. The result of the index (1.207; P-value=0.227) showed that the occurrence points were not spatially correlated. Totally, we collected 95 and 113 presence points of the grey wolf and golden jackal, respectively.