Incorporating within- and between-patch resource selection in identification of critical habitat for brood-rearing greater sage-grouse

Ecological Processes

Table 6 Covariate parameter estimates of the most plausible model of the non-behaviorally adjusted model for greater sage-grouse

Parameter	Estimate	SE	95% CL
Percent sagebrush (linear)	0.03	0.038	−0.04 to 0.11
Percent sagebrush (quadratic)	−0.002	0.002	−0.01 to 2.5 E−3
Percent shrub (linear)	0.053	0.057	−0.06 to 0.16
Percent shrub (quadratic)	−0.002	0.002	−0.01 to 2.2 E−3
Estimated shrub height (linear)	0.029	0.009	0.01 to 0.05
Estimated shrub height (quadratic)	2.0 E−4	2.0 E−4	−6.0 E−4 to 2.0 E−4
Percent bare ground (linear)	−0.037	0.014	−0.06 to −0.01
Percent bare ground (quadratic)	3.0 E−4	1.0 E−4	1.0 E−5 to 5.0 E−4
Percent litter (linear)	0.029	0.012	4.6 E−3 to 0.05
Percent litter (quadratic)	−0.001	3.0^e-4	−1.2 E−3 to 1.0 E−4
Percent herbaceous (linear)	0.013	0.014	−0.01 to 0.04
Percent herbaceous (quadratic)	3.0 E−4	0.001	−1.4 E−3 to 8.0 E−4
Distance to nearest mesic area	−0.084	0.017	−0.12 to −0.05

Coefficient estimates, standard error (SE), and 95% confidence limits (CL) for covariates from the non-behaviorally adjusted model (vegetation and water resources; see Table 4) of resource selection by greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in south-central Wyoming, USA, from 2009 to 2012. Confidence limits in italics did not include zero.