Models evaluating the variation in roe deer growth rate within Grimsö Wildlife Research Area 1985–2005, based on Akaike information criterion (corrected for sample size, AICc) and including only models with a ΔAICc < 2, as well as the null model.

<p>^a—Lynx coded as 1 after lynx colonization in 1996 and as 0 before 1996.</p><p>^b—Roe deer growth rate = 0.46 (± 0.17 S.E.)- 0.29 (± 0.10 S.E.) * Lynx—1.19 (± 0.54 S.E.) * Roe deer density index.</p><p>Models evaluating the variation in roe deer growth rate within Grimsö Wildlife Research Area 1985–2005, based on Akaike information criterion (corrected for sample size, AICc) and including only models with a ΔAICc < 2, as well as the null model.