Candidate models of lynx third-order habitat selection in Norway during the lynx-hunting season, and all the year round.

<p>All models were of the form , where the probability of selecting the actual use during a given season is modelled as a function of a set of environmental factors measured for the lifetime home range composition () and seasonal use (): the <i>Hier</i> model included all interaction terms between both scales, the <i>Env</i> model included only the third-order selection measurements, the <i>Sex</i> model included an effect of sex in interaction with third-order selection measurements, and the <i>Null</i> model only estimated the intercept. The model selection followed an information-theoretic approach based on the number of parameters (<i>K</i>), maximum log-likelihood (<i>LL</i>), modified Akaike information criteria (), relative values (), and weight () of each model.