Table 2 Decrease in individual number by animal categories with an increase by a factor 10 in the generation time dose.

From: Dose reconstruction supports the interpretation of decreased abundance of mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

 

Estimates of TTD predictora

Decrease rate (1 − e−β)

Value (%)

Confidence interval 95%

Mammals

− 0.889

58.9

47.3–67.9

Prey

− 1.091

66.4

49.2–77.8

Predators

− 0.666

48.6

30.0–62.3

Predators (number of prey as cofounding variable)

− 0.683

49.5

30.1–63.5

  1. alog10 transformed but not scaled (i.e. not centered and not reduced), TTD in Gy before log transformation.
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