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Table S1. Characteristics for 56 Lower Keys marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri) patches in the Lower Keys, Florida, USA that were correlated to the probability patches used by rabbits in 2005 were abandoned in 2006 following Hurricane Wilma.

dCoasta areaa fwlowa uplanda hsalta Min 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 Abandoned Max 1.5 51.2 100.0 57.5 52.5 (n = 21) 0.6 6.2 50.9 7.7 8.3 (SE) (0.1) (1.6) (10.0) (3.3) (3.4) Min 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 Not Max 1.4 44.0 100.0 59.7 88.8 abandoned 0.7 6.2 23.6 3.8 23.5 (n = 35) (SE) (0.1) (2.5) (6.7) (2.1) (4.9) aVariable notation for patch attributes: distance from each patch centroid to the nearest coastline

(dCoast[km]), and patch area (area[ha]). All remaining variables are the % of each patch in the following habitat classifications: freshwater marsh, freshwater pineland, and freshwater hardwood (fwlow); upland pine rockland and hardwood hammock (upland); and highly salt- tolerant mangrove and scrub mangrove (hsalt). Table S2. Characteristics for 42 Lower Keys marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri) patches in the Lower Keys, Florida, USA that were correlated to the probability of rabbit recurrence in

2008 in a patch that was abandoned in 2006 following Hurricane Wilma.

areaa tot_occa mDista fwlowa hsalta devela watera suita patcha Min 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 100. Recurrence Max 51.2 9.0 748.0 60.9 67.8 99.8 44.8 3.2 0 (n = 16) 7.8 3.4 475.7 11.9 19.0 26.5 13.4 56.2 0.5 (SE) (3.2) (0.7) (64.4) (5.1) (4.5) (7.0) (4.1) (7.2) (0.2) Min 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 19.3 0.0 No 100. Max 6.8 7.0 803.0 100.0 88.4 65.6 30.9 1.0 recurrence 0 (n = 26) 2.1 1.2 270.8 18.9 22.8 9.7 5.7 80.9 0.2 (SE) (0.4) (0.3) (61.3) (6.1) (4.5) (3.0) (1.8) (4.2) (0.1) aVariable notation for patch attributes: patch area (area [ha]), the number of used LKMR patches whose centroids were within the average dispersal distance (tot_occ), the mean minimum straight line distance from the each patch’s centroid to the centroids of patches that were used during survey period 2 and located within the average LKMR dispersal distance (mDist [km]), and the % of each patch classified as freshwater marsh, freshwater pineland, and freshwater hardwood (fwlow) or highly salt-tolerant mangrove and scrub mangrove (hsalt). The following attributes are land classifications for each patch’s buffer zone: % developed land (devel); % open water beyond coastline (water); % natural land potentially suitable for LKMR including mangrove, scrub mangrove, buttonwood transition, salt marsh, pine rockland, hammock, freshwater marsh, freshwater pineland and freshwater hardwood (suit), and total area delineated rabbit habitat (patch[ha]).