Table 5.
Variable importance (%) in the final selected generalized additive mixed models. A raw importance value was calculated for each variable as one minus the mean correlation between predicted lynx occurrences using the original and randomized models (see details in the text)
| Variable | Day | Night | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summer | Winter | Summer | Winter | |
| Land cover | 62.5 | 27.4 | 83.8 | 13.7 |
| Altitude | 8.9 | 21.6 | 1.6 | 49.2 |
| TRI | 21.0 | 35.8 | 0.7 | 15.2 |
| Aspect | 1.7 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 6.4 |
| dTrails | 2.5 | 3.4 | 7.3 | 1.0 |
| dSettlement | 1.4 | 4.8 | 3.0 | 1.5 |
| dRock | 1.9 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| Roedeer | — | 0.1 | — | 0.7 |
| Reddeer | — | 1.4 | — | 4.6 |
| Individual | 0.0 | 3.6 | 0.0 | 5.2 |