FIGURE 2.

Progression through 2‐species conditional occupancy candidate set to evaluate co‐occurrence among canid species in southern Illinois, USA in relation to landscape covariates (% forest, distance to nearest structure, and structures/ha). The candidate set compared occupancy sub‐models with differential response to landscape features or response constrained to be the same, and models with focal species (species B) occupancy conditional on or independent of the interacting species (species A). The candidate set included comparisons of detection sub‐models where detection of species A and B were independent, detection of species B was conditional on species A occupancy, detection, or both. Covariates in the detection sub‐models were selected based on previous support in single‐species occupancy models for species B