Table 1.

Coefficients of the best home range size models (linear mixed models), for both the 90% and 50% contours. The AICc corresponds to a model in which the target group of predictors was removed, thus being a measure of its explanatory importance. NS, predictor not selected

	HR-90%			HR-50%
Term	Estimate	S.E.	AICc	Estimate	S.E.	AICc
Intercept	−0.086	0.294		−0.269	0.241
Season			90.141			58.017
Spring	−0.236	0.115		−0.200	0.082
Summer	−0.402	0.121		−0.438	0.082
Winter	−0.476	0.110		−0.461	0.079
Sex			100.294			55.974
Male	0.740	0.123		0.582	0.097
Nucleus			NS			38.772
East	NS	NS		−0.281	0.109
Selection-free movement			129.895			69.538
Step-length	0.002	0.000		0.002	0.000
Turn-angle	1.266	0.246		0.488	0.240
Selection strength			101.627			44.634
Slope	0.827	0.194		0.504	0.141
Slope2	2.306	0.544		1.261	0.422
Heat-load2	1.645	0.373		0.780	0.273
Resource availability			89.837			39.586
Heat load (CV)	4.252	1.637		4.070	1.390
NDVI (CV)	0.457	0.163		NS	NS