Preferred, small-scale foraging areas of two Southern Ocean fur seal species are not determined by habitat characteristics

Table 1 Final parameters used for each of the boosted regression tree models

Colony_season	Number of trees	Training set size	Variables excluded	AUC	Deviance
HD_AFS winter	500,000	5000	Frontal region	0.96	0.50
HD_AFS summer	329,440	5000	Frontal region	0.97	0.32
HD_SAFS winter	499,400	5000	Frontal region	0.96	0.54
HD_SAFS summer	160,000	2000	Frontal region	0.93	0.67
LD_SAFS winter	500,000	5000	Frontal region	0.97	0.44
LD_SAFS summer	205,060	2000	Frontal region	0.93	0.68

HD_SAFS high-density Subantarctic fur seal colony, LD_SAFS the low-density Subantarctic fur seal colony, HD_AFS the high-density Antarctic fur seal colony, AUC the area under curve of the receiver operating characteristic

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