Ecological Archives E088-049-A1

Debora Arlt and Tomas Pärt. 2007. Nonideal breeding habitat selection: a mismatch between preference and fitness. Ecology 88:792–801.

Appendix A (Table A1). Variation of territory sites with respect to potential predictors and estimators of territory quality.

Predictors/estimators of territory quality

n

 

Mean ± SD

Range

         

Predictors

       

Short field layer height

146

40%

   

Territory cluster size

146

 

1.5±1.4

0–5

Territory occupancy year t – 1

146

60%

   

Number neighbor pairs year t – 1

146

 

1.7±1.4

0–5

Territory breeding success year t – 1

68

78%

   

Number successful neighbors

64

 

1.9±1.3

0–5

         

Estimators

       

Long-term breeding success

140

 

0.73±0.25

0–1

Breeding success

84

79%

   

Number of fledged young

55

 

3.6±2.7

0–7

Number of recruits

54

 

0.5±0.8

0–4

Male survival

64

58%

   


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