“…The best model had the lowest Akaike information criterion corrected for small sample size (AICc), and a competing model had the ΔAICc < 2.0 (Burnham & Anderson,
2002). If the estimates of
and
are significantly less than 1.0 with the 95% confidence interval (CI) below 1.0, we concluded that the populations of coyotes and wild turkeys were subjected to density dependence (Royama,
1992; Wang et al,
2009; Xingan & Wang,
2018). We calculated the model‐average predictions of coyote and wild turkey annual relative abundances as the weighted means of the predictions of the three candidate models with Akaike weights as weights.…”