Ecological Archives A022-060-A4

Nicholas J. DeCesare, Mark Hebblewhite, Fiona Schmiegelow, David Hervieux, Gregory J. McDermid, Lalenia Neufeld, Mark Bradley, Jesse Whittington, Kirby G. Smith, Luigi E. Morgantini, Matthew Wheatley, and Marco Musiani. 2012. Transcending scale dependence in identifying habitat with resource selection functions. Ecological Applications 22:1068–1083.

Appendix D. Validation results per population-season.

Table D1. Spearman rank correlations between categorized model predictions and observed frequencies of internal, resubstituted use data validating resource selection functions estimating first-order (S1), second-order (S2), and third-order selection (S3) for woodland caribou during winter and summer in west-central Alberta and eastern British Columbia, 1998–2009.

Population S1 S2 S3
Winter Summer Winter Summer Winter Summer
Narraway 0.997 0.976 0.988 0.927 1.00 1.00
Redrock-Prairie Creek 0.997 0.988 0.988 0.952 1.00 0.988
A la Pêche 1.00 1.00 0.927 -0.212 0.915 0.964
Little Smoky 0.701 0.701 0.988 0.891 1.00 1.00
Redwillow 0.888 0.969 0.964 0.976 0.988 0.988
Banff 0.701 0.813 0.915 0.598 0.939 0.973
Brazeau 0.937 0.701 0.782 0.988 0.867 0.976
Maligne 0.969 0.888 0.806 0.988 0.927 0.952
Tonquin 0.969 0.969 0.939 1.00 0.988 0.988

Table D2. Spearman rank correlations between categorized model predictions and observed frequencies of external, withheld use data validating resource selection functions estimating second-order (S2) and third-order selection (S3) for woodland caribou during winter and summer in west-central Alberta and eastern British Columbia, 1998–2009.

Population S2 S3
Winter Summer Winter Summer
Narraway 0.888 -0.176 1.00 0.976
Redrock-Prairie Creek 1.00 0.863 0.988 1.00
A la Pêche -0.164 -0.030 0.952 0.794
Little Smoky 0.964 0.709 0.915 0.564
Redwillow 0.588 -0.297 0.952 0.806
Brazeau -0.733 0.988 0.782 1.00
Maligne 0.988 0.309 0.976 0.733
Tonquin 1.00 0.382 0.903 0.952

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