Table 1.

Exploratory analyses of the effects of environment on diversity of birds and mammals.

	OLS coeff.	SAR coeff.	Std. Coeff	Std. Error	P-value
Birds
Latitude	10.555	10.741	0.681	1.448	<0.001
Latitude 2	-0.733	-0.736	-0.221	0.228	0.002
PET	-1.998	-2.006	-0.39	0.532	<0.001
Tmean	28.322	28.079	0.683	5.407	<0.001
Tmean 2	7.774	7.666	0.504	1.169	<0.001
NDVI	16.275	16.062	0.17	5.13	<0.001
Mammals
Latitude	1.043	1.058	0.783	0.088	<0.001
Latitude 2	-0.123	-0.12	-0.419	0.014	<0.001
PET	-0.093	-0.088	-0.2	0.032	0.006
Tmean	1.331	1.27	0.36	0.32	<0.001
Tmean 2	0.133	0.132	0.101	0.07	<0.001
ARH	0.271	0.272	0.197	0.052	<0.001
Birds R2 (SAR): 0.515 Mammals R2 (SAR): 0.745

Spatial autoregressive analyses exploring the role of environmental conditions on avian richness and mammal richness. Lat = latitude, Lat² = quadratic term of latitude, PET = potential evapotranspiration, Tmean = mean temperature, Tmean² = quadratic term of mean temperature, NDVI = normalized difference vegetation index and ARH = annual relative humidity.