Is your ad hoc model selection strategy affecting your multimodel inference?

The effects of habitat, climate, and Barred Owls on long-term demography of Northern Spotted Owls

(2016) Katie M. Dugger et al.   CONDOR

Spatial and temporal structure of a mesocarnivore guild in midwestern north America

(2015) Damon B. Lesmeister et al.   WILDLIFE MONOGRAPHS

The roles of competition and habitat in the dynamics of populations and species distributions

(2013) Charles B. Yackulic et al.   ECOLOGY

Landscape factors affecting relative abundance of gray foxesUrocyon cinereoargenteusat large scales in Illinois, USA

(2013) Susan E. Cooper et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Neighborhood and habitat effects on vital rates: expansion of the Barred Owl in the Oregon Coast Ranges

(2012) Charles B. Yackulic et al.   ECOLOGY

Joint estimation of habitat dynamics and species interactions: disturbance reduces co-occurrence of non-native predators with an endangered toad

(2012) David A. W. Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Uninformative Parameters and Model Selection Using Akaike's Information Criterion

(2011) TODD W. ARNOLD   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Model selection bias and Freedman’s paradox

(2009) Paul M. Lukacs et al.   ANNALS OF THE INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS

Modeling species occurrence dynamics with multiple states and imperfect detection

(2009) Darryl I. MacKenzie et al.   ECOLOGY