Ecological Archives E087-187-A2

Deborah Austin, W. Don Bowen, Jim I. McMillan, and Sara J. Iverson. 2006. Linking movement, diving, and habitat to foraging success in a large marine predator. Ecology 87:3095–3108.

Appendix B. Results from GLMM with dive parameters predictive of the number of feeding events per trip (n =16). Includes the Akaike’s Information Criteria (AICc), the delta AICci) and the Akaike weights (wi). Best fitting models are given in bold print.

ID

Model

df

AICc

Δi

wi

1

Trip length (d)

59

226.50

2.28

0.22

2

Post trip haulout (h)

59

308.10

83.88

0.00

3

Accumulated bottom time/d  (h)

59

301.88

77.66

0.00

4

Trip length (d) + post trip haulout (h)

58

229.70

4.40

0.08

5

Trip length (d) + accumulated bottom time/d (h)

58

225.30

0

0.70



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