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Table 3 Model selection for dispersing and resident male brown bears of model sets fit using resource selection functions (RSFs) and integrated step selection analysis (iSSA)

From: Movement and habitat selection of a large carnivore in response to human infrastructure differs by life stage

Model

Resident

Dispersal

Mean ∆AIC

Minimum AIC tally

Mean ∆AIC

Minimum AIC tally

Landscape scale (RSF)

Full

0.32

36 (0.78)

0.82

6 (0.40)

Public roads and buildings

21.11

6 (0.13)

6.24

6 (0.40)

Forestry roads and public roads

189.84

0 (0)

20.88

1 (0.07)

Public roads

204.26

0 (0)

26.67

0 (0)

Forestry roads and buildings

536.49

4 (0.09)

33.84

0 (0)

Buildings

556.54

0 (0)

39.46

1 (0.07)

Forestry roads

1019.13

0 (0)

74.65

1 (0.07)

Core

1035.81

0 (0)

81.20

0 (0)

Local scale (iSSA)

Full

0.96

29 (0.63)

2.06

3 (0.2)

Forestry roads and public roads

11.38

7 (0.15)

3.62

3 (0.2)

Forestry roads and buildings

11.47

5 (0.11)

6.74

4 (0.27)

Forestry roads

22.82

2 (0.04)

9.88

2 (0.13)

Public roads and buildings

40.22

2 (0.04)

15.07

0 (0)

Public roads

49.80

0 (0)

17.42

2 (0.13)

Buildings

50.68

1 (0.02)

19.95

0 (0)

Core

61.24

0 (0)

24.57

1 (0.07)

  1. Bold denote the best models for different life stages and scale
  2. Mean ∆AIC is the mean ∆AIC for all bear-years during the given life stage (n = 15 for dispersing males and n = 46 for resident males). Minimum AIC tally is the number of times that a given model had the lowest AIC among candidate models within a bear-year and the proportion of the model-specific tally for model sets is given in parentheses