Experimental Evaluation of Koala Scat Persistence and Detectability with Implications for Pellet-Based Fauna Census

Table 5

Relative variable importance (by decreasing importance) across all models searching for environmental variables explaining koala scat decay.

Variable	Model-averaged estimate	Unconditional standard error estimator	Relative variable importance
Rain	1.02	0.26	0.99
Flooded	0.67	0.10	0.99
Litter	−1.06	0.35	0.98
Elevation	−0.01	0.00	0.50
Detritivores	−0.97	0.72	0.48
Rehabilitation	−0.10	0.47	0.03
RE 12.2.5	0.55	0.57	0.03
RE 12.2.6	0.14	0.56	0.03
RE 12.2.7	0.12	0.41	0.03
RE 12.2.8	0.56	0.42	0.03
RE 12.2.10	0.45	0.48	0.03
RE 12.2.15	0.94	0.60	0.03