Research Article

Leopard Panthera pardus fusca Density in the Seasonally Dry, Subtropical Forest in the Bhabhar of Terai Arc, Nepal

Table 3

Model selection summary for geographic closure for the leopard population in Parsa Wildlife Reserve in program MARK. Phi represents the site fidelity. is the recapture probability and is immigration onto the study site. Parameter with “ ” indicates a constant value and with “1” and/or “0” indicates parameter is fixed. AICc is Akaike’s information criterion corrected for small sample size and difference in AIC value between top model and th model is represented by ΔAICc. Weight of support for each model is AICc weights, .

ModelAICcΔAICcAICc weights (ω)Model likelihoodNumber of parameters (k)Deviance

Phi(1) (time) (0) 263.164200.89645116100.0934
Phi(1) (time) · (·) 268.40085.23660.065380.07291798.9144
Phi(·) (time) (0) 269.57986.41560.036260.040417100.0934
Phi(·) (time) · (·) 275.45812.29380.001920.00211898.9144