A showcase of the relationship between habitat selection and space use across individual deer and simulated dispersal probabilities. (a) Observed home ranges and the proportion of each landcover type within an individual’s home range for IDs 1151 (top panel: purple polygon), 1150 (middle panel: red polygon), and 1093 (bottom panel: yellow polygon). The matched-color triangles highlight the same example individuals in the plot in (b) and the colored box outlines in (c). (b) Relative selection strength of male and female deer (n = 27) of fine thematic resolution landcover types during breeding seasons 2016 – 2021. The dashed line indicates a coefficient of 0. Points with confidence intervals above the dashed line signify positive selection in reference to forested landcover and points with intervals below the dashed line show negative selection in reference to forest. Deer sex is shown by symbol shape and vertical lines show 95% confidence intervals around coefficient estimates. (c) Simulated dispersal kernels informed by iSSA movement and habitat selection coefficient values where dark colors represent low probability of future dispersal and light colors indicate high probabilities of future dispersal across the landcover types indicated in the legend.