4.3. Habitat use and effect of human activity
The habitat type was not included in the model as all the survey transects in Yok Don National Park were located in dry
deciduous forest, while the survey transects in Cat Tien National Park were conducted mainly in grassland and on the edge
of a lake.
Distance to human settlement was strongly correlated with distance to water (r = 0.389, P < 0.0001) and thus we
selected only distance to water to run in the models. The best model (i.e. that with the lowest AIC) had distance to water
(β = −2.832, p < 0.0001), presence of cattle (β = −1.241, p < 0.0001) and vegetation coverage (β = −2.038, p =
0.0008) all having a significant negative influence on the number of green peafowl detected (Table 2).