Performance of proximity loggers under controlled field conditions: an assessment from a wildlife ecological and epidemiological perspective

Table 1 Results of the final linear mixed model used to explain the RSSI values (intensity of proximity loggers signal) according to external factors and their interactions

	Estimate	Std. error	t value	p values
(intercept)	− 50.82	3.24	− 15.67	***
DIST	− 12.29	0.14	− 85.91	***
HEIGHT1	6.79	0.44	15.40	***
HEIGHT2	3.96	0.39	10.18	***
VEG1	9.31	0.31	29.64	***
BMASS1	− 5.45	5.01	− 1.09	ns
BMASS2	− 2.69	2.51	− 1.07	ns
DIST:VEG1	− 3.20	0.11	− 29.31	***
DIST:BMASS1	1.83	0.18	10.17	***
DIST:BMASS2	1.28	0.12	10.97	***
DIST:HEIGHT1	0.33	0.15	2.16	*
DIST:HEIGHT2	− 0.42	0.14	− 3.07	**

VEG: presence (1) vs. absence of vegetation; DIST: distance; HEIGHT: height of the receiver and transmitter (reference class 0 [both devices located at ground level]: 0-0; 1 [both devices located at 1 m]: 1-1 and 2 [receiver located at 0 m and transmitter at 1 m, or vice versa]: 0-1); BMASS: presence of body mass around the receiver and transmitter (reference class 0 [without body mass]: 0-0; 1 [body mass around both the receiver and the transmitter]: 1-1 and 2 [body mass around only one device, receiver or transmitter]: 0-1)
p values: p ≥ 0.1 “ns”; p < 0.1 “·”; p < 0.05 “*”; p < 0.01 “**”; p < 0.001 “***”

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