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TABLES
Table 1. Model selection results for detection probability, initial
occupancy, and settlement probability from acoustic data collected in
Valley County, Montana during the month of April in 2020 and 2021. The
number of parameters (K), QAICc values,
ΔQAICc values, and model weights
(QAICcWt) are reported.