Ecological Archives E087-187-A6

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 F. Results from a GLMM to predict number of feeding events per 6-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)

464

1957.06

65.47

0.00

2

Mean dive duration (min)

464

1981.76

90.17

0.00

3

Mean bottom time (min)

464

1973.30

81.71

0.00

4

% square shapedd dives

464

2015.93

124.34

0.00

5

% v-shaped dives

464

1961.00

69.41

0.00

6

Travel rate (km/h)

464

1915.61

24.02

0.00

7

Distance (km)

464

1900.41

8.82

0.01

8

Bathymetry (m)

464

1971.97

80.38

0.00

9

Bottom temperature (ºC)

464

1967.48

75.89

0.00

10

Prevalence of muddy gravel

464

1991.92

100.33

0.00

11

Prevalence of clay, sandy silt

464

1993.13

101.54

0.00

12

Prevalence of mud, sand, with gravel

464

1989.10

97.51

0.00

13

Prevalence of silty clay

464

1989.50

97.91

0.00

14

Prevalence of  clean, well-sorted sand/gravel

464

1989.85

98.26

0.00

15

Mean bout duration (h)

464

1991.60

100.01

0.00

16

Angular deviation

464

1993.62

102.03

0.00

17

Meandepth (m) + % v-shaped dives

463

1947.04

55.45

0.00

18

Mean depth (m) + distance traveled (km)

463

1915.35

23.76

0.00

19

% v-shaped dives + distance traveled (km)

463

1891.59

0.00

0.99

20

Mean depth (m) + % v-shaped dives + distance traveled (km)

462

1912.93

21.34

0.00



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