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Table 2 Model results for biological and landscape model sets for mean hourly displacement (Dis.) of postpartum females in Sussex County, Delaware, USA, 2016–2017. Models within each set are ranked based on the lowest Akaike’s Information Criterion adjusted for small sample size (AICc) where ΔAICc = AICci – minimum AICc, K = number of parameters, w = AICc weight, and LL = log likelihood

From: Navigating motherhood: biological and landscape factors affecting postpartum movement in white-tailed deer

 

Model

ΔAICc

K

w

LL

Biological

Dis. ~ Female Age + Number of Fawns

0.00

5

0.56

-1305.61

Dis. ~ Number of Fawns

1.25

4

0.30

-1307.27

Dis. ~ Female Maturity + Number of Fawns

3.30

5

0.11

-1307.26

Dis. ~ Female Age + Fawn Agea

7.48

7

0.01

-1307.25

Dis. ~ Fawn Age

7.70

6

0.00

-1308.41

Dis. ~ Female Maturity + Fawn Age

9.81

7

0.00

-1308.41

Dis. ~ Female Age

16.74

4

0.00

-1315.02

Dis. ~ Null

16.87

3

0.00

-1316.12

Dis. ~ Female Maturity

18.93

4

0.00

-1316.11

Landscape

Dis. ~ Female Age + Number of Fawns + Prepartum

Range Size

0.00

6

0.44

-1302.51

Dis. ~ Female Age + Number of Fawns + Prepartum

Range Size + Mean Shape Index

1.45

7

0.21

-1302.17

Dis. ~ Female Age + Number of Fawns + Prepartum

Range Size + Diversity Index

2.01

7

0.16

-1302.46

Dis. ~ Female Age + Number of Fawns + Prepartum

Range Size + Mean Shape Index + Diversity

Index

3.58

8

0.07

-1302.17

Dis. ~ Female Age + Number of Fawns

4.11

5

0.06

-1305.61

Dis. ~ Female Age + Number of Fawns + Mean

Shape Index

5.68

6

0.03

-1305.34

Dis. ~ Female Age + Number of Fawns + Diversity

Index

6.00

6

0.02

-1305.50

Dis. ~ Female Age + Number of Fawns + Diversity

Index + Mean Shape Index

7.77

7

0.01

-1305.33

Dis. ~ Null

20.99

3

0.00

-1316.12

  1. aFawn Age includes days since parturition, fawn survival status, and an interaction between these variables