Ecological Archives M080-004-A5

Louie H. Yang, Kyle Edwards, Jarrett E. Byrnes, Justin L. Bastow, Amber N. Wright, and Kenneth O. Spence. 2010. A meta-analysis of resource pulse–consumer interactions. Ecological Monographs 80:125-151.

Appendix E. Model selection tables for consumer response duration analyses.

TABLE E1. All sixteen combinations of four explanatory variables (R = response mechanism, B = consumer body mass, G = consumer generation time, and M = resource pulse magnitude) and one grouping factor (s = system) explaining the regression between the resource pulse duration and the consumer response duration. Models within the 95% confidence set are shown in italics.

Model variables

Δ cAIC

cAIC weight

Δ AIC

AIC weight

s RB

0.0000

0.5759

0.0000

0.5213

s RBM

2.2060

0.1911

2.2857

0.1663

s GRB

2.4292

0.1709

2.4392

0.1540

s GRBM

4.6979

0.0550

4.8237

0.0467

s GR

10.8908

0.0025

8.3485

0.0080

s B

12.4442

0.0011

5.0171

0.0424

s GRM

12.4784

0.0011

10.2003

0.0032

s R

12.6904

0.0010

10.4892

0.0028

s RM

13.3318

0.0007

11.4542

0.0017

s GB

14.3931

0.0004

6.7607

0.0177

s MB

18.0741

0.0001

7.1075

0.0149

s G

19.3341

0.0000

8.2800

0.0083

s GBM

19.8541

0.0000

8.9738

0.0059

s

20.7440

0.0000

11.0189

0.0021

s GM

20.9471

0.0000

9.9758

0.0036

s M

22.1006

0.0000

12.2418

0.0011

 

TABLE E2. Variable weights from model selection analyses using cAIC and AIC criteria, where R = response mechanism, B = consumer body mass, G = consumer generation time, and M = resource pulse magnitude.

Variable

Weight from cAIC

Weight from AIC

R

0.99825

0.90393

B

0.99457

0.96924

M

0.24807

0.24335

G

0.23003

0.24737


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