Table 5 GAM results for the breeding success of king penguins from Possession Island as a function of SSTA, distance to the PF and SAIOD.

From: Large-scale climatic anomalies affect marine predator foraging behaviour and demography

Covariate

F -test

P -value

Adjusted R 2

SSTA

4.572

0.023

0.417

Dist

1.711

0.217

0.124

SAIOD

2.730

0.102

0.187

  1. Dist, distance from the colony to the polar front; GAM, generalized additive models; PF, polar front; SAIOD, the south Atlantic–Indian Oceans dipole; SSTA, sea surface temperature anomalies.
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