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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.