Ecological Archives E087-187-A1

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 A. Results from GLMM with dive parameters predictive of the number of feeding events per bout (n = 16). 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 bottom time (min)

726

3249.48

0

0.841

2

Mean depth (m)

726

3298.07

48.59

0.000

3

Mean dive duration (min)*

726

3252.81

3.33

0.159

4

Mean bout length (h)

726

3290.61

41.13

0.000

5

% square shaped dives

726

3314.26

64.78

0.000

6

% v-shaped dives

726

3395.91

146.43

0.000

7

Mean bottom time (min) + % square shaped dives

725

3282.10

31.54

0.000

8

Mean bottom time (min) + % v-shaped dives

725

3352.76

102.20

0.000

* Mean dive duration is strongly correlated with mean bottom time (P < 0.001).



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