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Jon D. Witman, Robert W. Lamb, and Jarrett E. K. Byrnes. 2015. Towards an integration of scale and complexity in marine ecology. Ecological Monographs 85:475–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-2265.1

Appendix C. Details of regression analysis.

Table C1. Results of regression analysis of time (year of publication) on the metrics of scale and complexity.

Variable

P

R²

GLM Family

link

Species

0.0002

0.0085

Negative Binomial (0.952)

log

Factors

0.0033

0.0257

Quasipoisson

log

Treatment combinations

0.0018

0.0255

Gamma

log

Spatial extent

0.0075

0.0132

Gamma

log

Global spatial extent

0.2543

0.0033

Gamma

log

Spatial grain

0.0051

0.0114

Gamma

log

Duration

0.6973

0.0005

Gamma

log


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