Table 1 Model parameters and results for the lion density survey conducted between April 6th–June 19th (75 days) by UWA rangers in the Nile Delta tourism region of Murchison Falls National Park

From: Rangers on the frontline of wildlife monitoring: a case study on African lions in Uganda’s Nile Delta

Rangers Delta

M1

M2

M3

M4

scrBayes

        

Data summaries

 Area

255

 Search effort

2939

 Indivs

30

 Detections

102

MODEL SETUP

 Buffer

15

 OP pixel size

1

 SP pixel size

1

 Iterations

11000

 M

1000

 Msex=

1

 

0

 

0

 

1

 

 Msexsigma=

1

 

1

 

0

 

0

 

 Call-in

NULL

 

NULL

 

NULL

 

NULL

 

Diagnostics

 Convergence (Max GR)

1.05

 

1.02

 

1.01

 

1.03

 

 Bayes P-value

0.94

 

0.83

 

0.70

 

0.88

 

 Marginal likelihood

−73660.23

 

−58017.12

 

−49446.71

 

−42514.04

 

Estimates

EST

PSD

EST

PSD

EST

PSD

EST

PSD

sigma

2.74

0.27

2.72

0.25

2.66

0.23

2.53

0.21

sigma2

1.51

0.24

1.78

0.39

2.66

0.23

2.53

0.21

lam0

0.01

0.00

0.01

0.00

0.01

0.00

0.01

0.00

beta1.effort.

0.78

0.13

0.79

0.13

0.79

0.13

0.78

0.13

beta.sex

−2.11

0.49

NA

NA

NA

NA

−1.77

1.21

psi

0.74

0.17

0.17

0.05

0.13

0.02

0.40

0.29

psi.sex

0.86

0.06

0.36

0.13

NA

NA

0.57

0.27

Nsuper

741.95

174.82

169.30

44.92

129.80

21.85

396.58

286.63

D.adj

79.52

18.74

18.15

4.81

13.91

2.34

42.51

30.72

  1. M1 and M4 were rejected since the Bayesian p-value was outside the extremities (0.15 and 0.85) (Royle et al. 38). M2 displayed significant parameter redundancy, and so M3 was chosen for reporting.