Habitat use and movement patterns of broad-snouted caimans (Caiman latirostris) in an impacted Atlantic forest environment in Brazil

Table 3 Tweedie generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) averaged parameters of covariates predicting broad-snouted caimans (Caiman latirostris) movements (meters) in the Tapacurá Reservoir, São Lourenço da Mata, Pernambuco, Brazil between August 2013, and June 2022

Fixed effects	β	SE	z	p	CI 2.5%	CI 97.5%
Intercept	4.84	0.35	13.68	< 0.001	4.14	5.53
Reservoir volume:female	0.31	0.23	1.32	0.188	− 0.15	0.76
Reservoir volume:male	0.31	0.09	3.33	0.001*	0.13	0.50
Daily rainfall:female	0.42	0.15	2.81	0.005*	0.13	0.71
Daily rainfall:male	− 0.09	0.08	− 1.14	0.255	− 0.23	0.06
Sex(male)	− 0.69	0.47	− 1.46	0.145	− 1.61	0.24
Sex(male)*Season(wet)	1.36	0.49	2.78	0.005*	0.40	2.32

Random effects	N gr	N obs	Var	SD	CI 2.5%	CI 97.5%
ID	11	647	0.33	0.57	0.29	1.12

Covariates were scaled (mean = 0, standard error = 1)
GLMM framework: Movement ~ Reservoir volume:Sex + Daily rainfall:Sex + Sex*Season. Male sex and wet season were used as reference categories to present modeling results
ID, individual identification; N obs., number of observations; N gr., Number of groups for random effects; Var., variance; SD, standard deviation; β, parameter estimate; SE, standard error; z, z-statistic value; p, statistical significance level; CI, confidence interval
*p value statistically significant (< 0.05)

ISSN: 2050-3385