Table 1.

Regression coefficients from a linear mixed-effects model of the correlation coefficient between global ED scores and local ED scores based on six significant explanatory variables. (n = 4628 Nearctic and Neotropical bird communities.)

global versus local ED corr. predicted by	β estimate	p
latitude	0.001	0.0001
species richness	0.12	0.0001
PD/species richness	−0.01	0.26
years surveyed	−0.0007	0.003
distance to coast	−0.00001	0.0001
coastal (habitat)	0.015	0.02
cropland (habitat)	0.001	0.76
flooded (habitat)	0.005	0.72
forested (habitat)	0.016	0.0001
urban/bare (habitat)	−0.01	0.35