Ecological Archives E087-187-A4

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

ID

Model

df

AICc

Δi

wi

1

Angular variance

17

84.26

2.41

0.14

2

Travel rate (km/h)

17

98.92

17.07

0.00

3

Distance traveled/d (km)

17

101.62

19.77

0.00

4

Angular variance + distance traveled/d (km)

16

82.93

0

0.48

5

Travel rate (km/h) + distance traveled/d (km)*

16

84.10

1.17

0.26

6

Angular variance + travel rate (km/h) + distance traveled/d (km)*

15

87.36

2.79

0.12

*Significant interaction, therefore model cannot be used.


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