Monthly recapture probability of northern raccoons (<i>Procyon lotor</i>) at the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station, Florida.

<p>Estimates and 95% confidence intervals are from model {φ(sex)<i>p</i>(month+sex)λ(season)}.</p

Model comparison table for Pradel’s temporal symmetry analysis of data collected from a population of northern raccoons (<i>Procyon lotor</i>) at the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station, Florida, from September 1992 to December 1998.

<p>We ran model sets investigating the effects of sex, time, month, season, and additive and interactive effects of sex with the other variables on four parameters: recapture probability, <i>p</i>; apparent survival probability, φ; recruitment rate, <i>f</i>; and realized population growth rate, λ. In section (A), we used the recruitment parameterization; in section (B), we used the lambda parameterization. Only the top ten models are included for each set. K is the number of parameters, AIC_c is Akaike’s Information Criterion corrected for small sample size, ΔAIC_c is the difference between each model’s AIC_c and the AIC_c of the top-ranked model, weight is the Akaike weight or model probability, and deviance is the model deviance.</p

(A) Monthly apparent survival probability, (B) monthly recruitment rate, and (C) monthly realized population growth rate of northern raccoons (<i>Procyon lotor</i>) at the Ordway-Swisher Biological Station, Florida.

<p>Estimates and 95% confidence intervals are from the top-ranked model that included season for each parameter: {φ(season+sex)<i>p</i>(month+sex)λ(season)} for survival, {φ(sex)<i>p</i>(month+sex)<i>f</i>(season+sex)} for recruitment, and {φ(sex)<i>p</i>(month+sex)λ(season)} for population growth rate.</p