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. 2021 Aug 7;11(8):2334. doi: 10.3390/ani11082334

Table 2.

Male white-tailed deer spatial-capture recapture parameter estimates. Estimates of the posterior means for male white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) abundance (N), intensity function intercept (β0), the effect of bait on deer activity center density (β1), baseline encounter probabilities for both passive (p0 [passive]) and baited cameras (p0 [baited]), and the scaling parameter of the half-normal detection function (σ) from summer (2015) and winter (2016) camera surveys in southwestern Georgia, USA.

Summer Winter
Site Parameter Mean SD 2.5% 97.5% Mean SD 2.5% 97.5%
A N 261.5 8.925 247.0 282.0 214.0 5.167 205.0 225.0
β 0 3.247 0.140 2.972 3.521 2.133 0.134 1.869 2.392
β 1 −2.621 0.416 −3.456 −1.838 −0.734 0.223 −1.182 −0.309
p0 [passive] 0.028 0.002 0.023 0.033 0.012 0.001 0.010 0.015
p0 [baited] 0.673 0.017 0.641 0.707 0.414 0.011 0.393 0.436
σ 0.338 0.004 0.331 0.345 0.607 0.008 0.592 0.623
B N 138.6 8.041 124.0 155.0 100.3 1.180 99.0 103.0
β 0 1.529 0.125 1.312 1.805 1.112 0.099 0.922 1.315
β 1 −0.210 0.174 −0.651 −0.007 −0.081 0.074 −0.275 −0.002
p0 [passive] 0.028 0.004 0.022 0.036 0.011 0.001 0.009 0.014
p0 [baited] 0.420 0.023 0.378 0.467 0.255 0.011 0.233 0.278
σ 0.487 0.012 0.463 0.510 0.872 0.018 0.838 0.907
C N 168.5 14.598 141.0 198.0 108.2 4.387 101.0 118.0
β 0 1.940 0.124 1.719 2.207 1.367 0.108 1.160 1.589
β 1 −0.302 0.237 −0.874 −0.011 −0.108 0.097 −0.358 −0.003
p0 [passive] 0.020 0.003 0.014 0.027 0.014 0.002 0.010 0.018
p0 [baited] 0.370 0.021 0.331 0.411 0.244 0.014 0.219 0.272
σ 0.375 0.009 0.358 0.394 0.652 0.019 0.615 0.691
D N 104.6 8.606 89.0 123.0 85.5 2.349 82.0 91.0
β 0 1.459 0.183 1.137 1.848 1.141 0.174 0.832 1.511
β 1 −0.509 0.333 −1.263 −0.031 −0.327 0.223 −0.838 −0.016
p0 [passive] 0.022 0.004 0.015 0.030 0.013 0.002 0.009 0.018
p0 [baited] 0.457 0.025 0.409 0.506 0.263 0.013 0.239 0.289
σ 0.443 0.012 0.421 0.467 0.750 0.019 0.713 0.789