Table 1.

Parameter estimates for landscape and cougar variables influencing the relative probability of selection in SSFs in coyotes, black bears, and bobcats

	Coyote			Bear			Bobcat
	β	SE	P	β	SE	P	β	SE	P
CP × D2C*	0.20	0.08	0.01	0.55	0.15	<0.01	0.26	0.26	0.33
KP × D2K*	−0.26	0.05	<0.01	0.01	0.10	0.93	0.11	0.17	0.54
KP × D2K* × TSK*	0.07	0.02	<0.01	−0.02	0.04	0.59	−0.08	0.07	0.26
Canopy cover	−0.13	0.01	<0.01	0.36	0.01	<0.01	0.32	0.01	<0.01
Distance to road*	0.09	0.01	<0.01	0.13	0.01	<0.01	0.10	0.02	<0.01
Distance to water*	0.02	0.01	0.01	−0.01	0.01	0.44	0.01	0.02	0.45
Ruggedness	−0.06	0.01	<0.01	0.16	0.01	<0.01	0.02	0.02	0.23
PVT, wet forest†	−0.09	0.02	<0.01	0.42	0.03	<0.01	0.98	0.07	<0.01
PVT, dry forest†	−0.08	0.02	<0.01	0.26	0.03	<0.01	0.71	0.07	<0.01
PVT, other†	−0.25	0.15	0.09	1.39	0.11	<0.01	1.26	0.31	<0.01
Step length*	0.03	<0.01	<0.01	0.04	0.01	<0.01	0.05	0.01	<0.01
Turning angle‡	−0.09	0.01	<0.01	0.04	0.00	<0.01	0.22	0.02	<0.01

PVT = potential vegetation type, CP = cougar present, D2C = distance to nearest cougar, KP = kill present, D2K = distance to nearest kill, and TSK = time since kill.

^*The variable was natural log transformed.

^† The reference category was Grassland.

^‡ The cosine of the variable was used.