Table 2 Environmental predictors of pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) ARS behaviour in the Great Southern Australian Coastal Upwelling System selected in the top GAMM.

From: Movements and behaviour of blue whales satellite tagged in an Australian upwelling system

Variable

Chi-square

p-value

Number of times p < 0.05

SST*

155.717

0

100

SST_SD*

26.729

0

100

Depth

157.219

0

100

wind speed**

54.468

0

99

SSHa*

54.802

0

91

SSHA_SD*

38.616

0

94

Chlorophyll a***

38.616

 < 0.001

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  1. Shown is the approximate significance of smooth terms based on Chi-square statistics, and the number of times each variable was significant (p < 0.05) using 100 random subsets of the bsam (hSSSM) posterior distribution. This determines the variable’s resilience to spatial uncertainty.
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