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We visualised the #ecologicalniche occupied by each subspecies and compared them to see how much the Asian #leopards diverged from the African ones. In most cases, there is great or total overlap, with the exception of the Persian leopard which suggests niche expansion. This is supported by the fact that, when modelling the range of the species with #SDM/#ENM using only African presences, only the most northern part of the distribution is not retrieved. 2/3