Figure 3

Prediction plots with 95 % confidence intervals demonstrating the interaction between burn treatment and dominant canopy type on pellet densities (pellets transect⁻¹). Predicted means and confidence intervals are estimated from the “best” model relating habitat variables to pellet densities, as identified through multivariate analyses with multi-model inference. Other predictor variables in the “best” model are fixed at typical values (medians, or in the case of categorical data, at their proportional distribution in the data). The dashed horizontal line represents the regression-based pellet density equivalent to the threshold of 0.5 hares ha⁻¹ believed necessary to sustain lynx populations.