Table 1. Candidate scales and decay of each variable chosen for the model selection process for each dataset and their estimated parameter values after model fitting.
| Variable | Decay | Best model parameter value |
Importance | Parameter- averaged value |
Variable | Decay | Best model parameter value |
Importance | Parameter- averaged value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maputo females, dry season | Maputo females, wet season | ||||||||
| Distance | – | −1.10 | 1.00 | −1.10 | Distance | – | −0.97 | 1.00 | −0.97 |
| Reeds 4 | 0.0 | 0.63 | 0.97 | 0.63 | Reeds 2 | 0.0 | 0.14 | 0.81 | 0.32 |
| Reeds 42 | 0.0 | −0.15 | 0.94 | −0.15 | Reeds 22 | 0.0 | – | 0.58 | −0.06 |
| Reeds 20 | 0.0 | 2.02 | 0.80 | 1.87 | Reeds 18 | 0.0 | – | 0.39 | 0.59 |
| Reeds 202 | 0.0 | −2.57 | 0.99 | −2.12 | Reeds 182 | 0.0 | – | 0.32 | −0.24 |
| Trees 1 | 0.0 | 0.34 | 0.64 | 0.30 | Trees 0 | – | 0.36 | 1.00 | 0.34 |
| Trees 12 | 0.0 | −1.00 | 1.00 | −1.08 | Trees 02 | – | −0.25 | 1.00 | −0.24 |
| Trees 8 | 0.7 | −1.80 | 0.53 | −1.11 | Trees 14 | 0.7 | −0.72 | 0.52 | −0.65 |
| Trees 82 | 0.7 | – | 0.31 | −0.30 | Trees 142 | 0.7 | −3.20 | 1.00 | −2.94 |
| Trees 14 | 1.0 | 1.97 | 0.43 | 1.13 | Water distance | – | −0.35 | 0.79 | −0.33 |
| Trees 142 | 1.0 | – | 0.43 | −1.05 | Water distance2 | – | – | 0.31 | −0.09 |
| Water distance | – | – | 0.28 | −0.03 | Settlement distance | – | – | 0.29 | 0.04 |
| Water distance2 | – | – | 0.28 | −0.11 | |||||
| Settlement distance | – | – | 0.37 | 0.09 | |||||
| Maputo males, dry season | Maputo males, wet season | ||||||||
| Distance | – | −1.07 | 1.00 | −1.07 | Distance | – | −1.04 | 1.00 | −1.04 |
| Reeds 4 | 0.0 | 0.81 | 0.98 | 0.74 | Reeds 0 | – | – | 0.33 | −0.00 |
| Reeds 42 | 0.0 | −0.34 | 1.00 | −0.33 | Reeds 02 | – | – | 0.48 | −0.48 |
| Trees 1 | 0.0 | 0.52 | 1.00 | 0.47 | Reeds 3 | 1.0 | – | 0.35 | 0.10 |
| Trees 12 | 0.0 | −0.12 | 0.84 | −0.11 | Reeds 32 | 1.0 | −0.06 | 0.46 | −0.06 |
| Trees 10 | 0.9 | −1.41 | 0.62 | −1.25 | Trees 2 | 0.0 | 0.44 | 1.00 | 0.43 |
| Trees 13 | 0.8 | 2.35 | 0.79 | 1.87 | Trees 9 | 1.0 | – | 0.43 | 0.45 |
| Water distance | – | 0.32 | 0.91 | 0.33 | Trees 92 | 1.0 | −0.81 | 0.99 | −0.81 |
| Water distance2 | – | −0.18 | 0.99 | −0.18 | Trees 15 | 0.7 | – | 0.32 | −0.51 |
| Settlement distance | – | – | 0.51 | 0.11 | Trees 20 | 0.6 | 3.21 | 0.99 | 3.13 |
| Trees 202 | 0.6 | 1.06 | 0.53 | 1.05 | |||||
| Water distance | – | −0.13 | 0.66 | −0.12 | |||||
| Water distance2 | – | – | 0.32 | −0.00 | |||||
| Settlement distance | – | – | 0.28 | −0.01 | |||||
| Etosha females, dry season | Etosha females, wet season | ||||||||
| Distance | – | −1.13 | 1.00 | −1.13 | Distance | – | −1.39 | 1.00 | −1.39 |
| Mopane 1 | 0.0 | 0.50 | 1.00 | 0.50 | Mopane 1 | 0.8 | 0.16 | 0.85 | 0.14 |
| Mopane 7 | 0.0 | 0.23 | 0.91 | 0.24 | Mopane 12 | 0.8 | −0.17 | 0.97 | −0.18 |
| A. nebrownii 1 | 0.0 | 0.21 | 1.00 | 0.21 | Mopane 15 | 0.0 | – | 0.35 | 0.20 |
| A. nebrownii 18 | 0.0 | – | 0.30 | 0.09 | A. nebrownii 0 | – | 0.35 | 0.98 | 0.30 |
| A. nebrownii 182 | 0.0 | 0.41 | 1.00 | 0.40 | A. nebrownii 02 | – | −0.07 | 0.87 | −0.06 |
| Acacia 2 | 1.0 | 0.18 | 1.00 | 0.18 | A. nebrownii 7 | 0.0 | −0.60 | 0.85 | −0.64 |
| Water distance | – | −0.21 | 0.57 | −0.24 | A. nebrownii 72 | 0.0 | 0.23 | 0.84 | 0.21 |
| Water distance2 | – | 0.18 | 0.90 | 0.21 | A. nebrownii 14 | 0.0 | −0.71 | 0.81 | −0.72 |
| Acacia 2 | 0.0 | 0.57 | 0.99 | 0.59 | |||||
| Acacia 10 | 0.0 | 1.46 | 0.52 | 1.31 | |||||
| Acacia 102 | 0.0 | 3.11 | 0.84 | 2.72 | |||||
| Acacia 20 | 0.0 | −9.20 | 1.00 | −8.02 | |||||
| Acacia 202 | 0.0 | −11.59 | 0.99 | −9.83 | |||||
| Water distance | – | −0.17 | 0.48 | −0.19 | |||||
| Water distance2 | – | – | 0.30 | −0.01 | |||||