Table 2.
Tracking data used | Tests | Response variable | Fixed effect | Random effect | Sample size | |
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Association of last week with grouse moors |
n = 24,447 N = 10,974, fixes |
Binomial GLMM | Binary: terminal week (1) or an alive week (0) | —Weekly proportion of fixes on grouse moors —Days since tagging (max. per week) |
Bird ID | n = 1475, N = 692 weeks |
Landscape-scale analysis | n = 23,357, N = 10,800, fixes on UK mainland and Isle of Man | Binomial GLM | Two vector cbind: number of fixes in terminal week, number of other fixes, per 20 km2 grid cell | Proportion of 1 km2 cells with grouse moor cover in 20 km2 grid | na | n = 309, N = 244 grid squares |
Protected area analysis |
n = 5960 N = 4940, fixes in protected areas in England |
Binomial GLM | Two vector cbind: number of fixes in terminal week, number of other fixes, per PA | Proportion of 1 km2 cells with grouse moor cover inside PAs | na | n/N = 8 protected areas |
Three main analyses used to explore whether death or disappearance of satellite-tracked hen harriers were associated with grouse moor habitat. Sample size of fixes used per analysis are described, where (n) includes fixes from all harriers and (N) is the sample size for repeat analyses using only suspected (SIM) and known (I) illegal mortalities