Hunting as a management tool? Cougar-human conflict is positively related to trophy hunting

BMC Ecology

Table 1 Models for assessing temporal patterns of cougar-human conflict in British Columbia, Canada that received substantial support (ΔAICc < 2)

Region	Sex	Model description	ΔAICc	w _AICc	R²
Cariboo	Male	D + D² + H_t0	0.0	0.33	0.557
		D + D²	1.0	0.20	0.456
		H_t0	1.1	0.19	0.369
	Female	D + D²	0.0	0.64	0.599
Kootenay	Male	N_t0 + H_t0	0.0	0.82	0.816
	Female	D + D²	0.0	0.48	0.736
		N_t0 + D + D²	0.3	0.42	0.772
Lower Mainland SW	Male	H_t1 + H_t2	0.0	0.19	0.258
		H_t0 + H_t1 + H_t2	0.6	0.14	0.347
	Female	D + D²	0.0	0.46	0.334
Thompson Okanagan	Male	D + D² + H_t0	0.0	0.51	0.590
	Female	H_t0 + H_t1 + H_t2	0.0	0.30	0.406
		H_t0	1.8	0.12	0.124
		D + D²	1.8	0.12	0.236
Vancouver Island	Male	H_t1 + H_t2	0.0	0.35	0.539
		H_t0 + H_t1 + H_t2	0.2	0.32	0.602
	Female	H_t0	0.0	0.50	0.668
		N_t0 + H_t0	1.6	0.23	0.688

D human density, H _t0 human hunting pressure, H _t1 Human hunting pressure (lag 1), H _t2 human hunting pressure (lag 2), N _t0 NDVI, N _t1 NDVI (lag 1), N _t2 NDVI (lag 2)

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