TABLE 1 .

Interspecific occupancy-abundance modeling with the maximum-likelihood-based determination of the best-fit model^a

Model	Model form	Maximum likelihood	Mean absolute deviance	Reference
Poisson	$P=1-e^{-\mu }$	−109082.22	0.1716	30
Nachman	$P=1-e^{-\alpha {\mu }^{\beta }}$	−10659.83	0.0359	33
Hanski-Gyllenberg	$P=\frac{\alpha {\mu }^{\beta }}{1+\alpha {\mu }^{\beta }}$	−10622.13	0.0347	34
Power	$P=\alpha {\mu }^{\beta }$	−109022.28	0.1716	32
Negative binomial	$P=1-{\left(1+\frac{\mu }{k}\right)}^{-k}$	−109021.05	0.1716	31

^aFor the model-fitting exercise, β was fixed as 1. Thus, the model fitting involved only iterative variation in α values, followed by estimation of maximum likelihood and mean absolute deviance.