Ecological Archives E087-187-A5

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 E. Results from a GLMM to predict number of feeding events per 3-h time bin. 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

Mean depth (m)

841

3656.44

35.98

0.00

2

Mean dive duration (min)

841

3678.01

57.55

0.00

3

Mean bottom time (min)

841

3661.79

41.33

0.00

4

% square shapedd dives

841

3699.81

79.35

0.00

5

% v-shaped dives

841

3671.32

50.86

0.00

6

Travel rate (km/h)

841

3639.21

18.75

0.00

7

Distance (km)

841

3630.53

10.07

0.00

8

Bathymetry (m)

841

3684.33

63.87

0.00

9

Bottom temperature (ºC)

841

3665.15

44.69

0.00

10

Prevalence of muddy gravel

841

3761.14

140.68

0.00

11

Prevalence of clay, sandy silt

841

3690.87

70.41

0.00

12

Prevalence of mud, sand, with gravel

841

3690.19

69.73

0.00

13

Prevalence of silty clay

841

3688.33

67.87

0.00

14

Prevalence of  clean, well-sorted sand/gravel

841

3686.95

66.49

0.00

15

Mean bout duration (h)

841

3691.00

70.54

0.00

16

Angular deviation

841

3692.31

71.85

0.00

17

Mean depth (m) + mean bottom time (min)

840

3643.96

23.50

0.00

18

Mean depth (m) + distance traveled (km)

840

3632.52

12.06

0.00

19

Mean bottom time (min) + distance traveled (km)

840

3620.70

0.24

0.47

20

Mean depth (m) + mean bottom time (min) + distance traveled (km)

839

3620.46

0.00

0.53



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