Table 1 Results of Akaike’s Information Criterion (AICc) analysis of candidate models explaining the probability of female little brown myotis reusing the same roost on consecutive days in Newfoundland Canada. The difference from the top-ranked models (∆AICc), balanced by the number of parameters (K), Akaike weights (wi) for all models and the sum of Akaike weights (Σwi) for models comprising ≥ 95% are also calculated. Parameters included in ‘Maternal care’ include reproductive period and a random effect of year, ‘Thermoregulation’ includes parameters of change in temperature, change in humidity, and an interaction between temperature and humidity, and ‘Flight conditions’ includes parameters of maximum wind gust and total precipitation.
Candidate Model | K | AICc | ∆AICc | wi | Σwi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maternal Care + Thermoregulation | 7 | 21530.8 | 0 | 0.64 | 0.64 |
Global Model (Maternal Care + Thermoregulation + Flight Conditions) | 8 | 21532.0 | 1.2 | 0.36 | 1 |
Maternal Care | 4 | 21576.9 | 46.0 | < 0.001 | |
Maternal Care + Flight Conditions | 6 | 21579.3 | 48.5 | < 0.001 | |
Flight Conditions + Thermoregulation | 6 | 21808.2 | 277.4 | < 0.001 | |
Thermoregulation | 5 | 21810.6 | 279.7 | < 0.001 | |
Flight Conditions | 4 | 21868.3 | 337.4 | < 0.001 | |
Null | 1 | 23048.1 | 1517.3 | 0 |