4. Discussion
Among all the model’s RF and GLM represented the highest and lowest performance in predicting habitat suitability for both species respectively. Besides, we used a combination of ensemble modeling and landscape connectivity analysis to identify core habitat patches and connectivity corridors for grey wolf and golden jackal. Secondly, we assessed the extent and percent of core habitats covered by current conservation networks. Finally, we used spatial randomization of vehicle collision locations to test the predictive ability of resistant kernel and factorial least-cost path predictions of movement.