Ecological Archives M080-004-A6

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 F. Model selection tables for consumer response lag analyses.

TABLE F1. All four combinations of two explanatory categorical variables (R = response mechanism, T = ecosystem type) and one grouping factor (s = system). Models within the 95% confidence set are shown in italics.

Model variables

Δ cAIC

cAIC weight

Δ AIC

AIC weight

s RT

0.00000

0.37919

0.00000

0.73694

s T

0.00370

0.37849

2.15150

0.25133

s R

2.28230

0.12113

8.87360

0.00872

s

2.28130

0.12119

10.99350

0.00302

 

TABLE F2. Categorical variable weights from model selection analyses using cAIC and AIC criteria, where R = response mechanism, and T = ecosystem type.

Variable

Variable weight from cAIC

Variable weight from AIC

T

0.73105

0.98826

R

0.49999

0.25435

 

TABLE F3. All ten valid combinations of four explanatory continuous variables (D = resource pulse duration, Ds = standardized pulse duration, G = ln[consumer generation time], and B = ln[consumer body mass]) and one grouping factor (s = system) in models predicting response lag. Models within the 95% confidence set are shown in italics.

Model variables

Δ cAIC

cAIC weight

Δ AIC

AIC weight

s B

0.00000

0.46466

0.00000

0.45862

s BD

1.75476

0.19324

1.90819

0.17664

s BG

2.31660

0.14591

2.18300

0.15396

s DsB

2.44348

0.13694

2.18867

0.15353

s BGD

4.12225

0.05916

4.16356

0.05719

s G

18.31642

0.00005

19.15952

0.00003

s GD

20.53594

0.00002

20.92801

0.00001

s

21.74173

0.00001

23.60891

0.00000

s Ds

22.15082

0.00001

24.14782

0.00000

s D

23.85667

0.00000

25.24003

0.00000

 

TABLE F4. Continuous variable weights from model selection analyses using cAIC and AIC criteria, where D = resource pulse duration, Ds = standardized pulse duration, G = ln(consumer generation time), and B = ln(consumer body mass).

Variable

Variable weight from cAIC

Variable weight from AIC

B

0.99992

0.99995

D

0.25240

0.23384

G

0.20507

0.21116

Ds

0.13694

0.15353


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