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Table 5 Laysan albatross: Mean values of behavioral parameters and track characteristics for each cluster

From: Shadowed by scale: subtle behavioral niche partitioning in two sympatric, tropical breeding albatross species

    

Cluster LA1

Cluster LA2

    

N = 6

N = 12

 

Test

F

P

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

Behavioral parameters

% Day in transit

lm

9.2

0.008**

24.7 ± 8.6

43.1 ± 12.3

% Night in transitb

lm

4.4

0.05**

28.4 ± 15.1

13.6 ± 11.9

% Day in transit forage

lm

17.2

0.0009**

33.6 ± 7.4

16.9 ± 7.6

% Night in transit forageb

lm

7.3

0.02**

15.0 ± 9.7

5.5 ± 4.6

% Day in ARS

lm

4.9

0.04**

4.8 ± 6.8

13.4 ± 7.5

% Night in ARS

lm

5.8

0.03**

24.3 ± 6.3

14.4 ± 8.1

% Day in ARS forage

lm

8.6

0.01**

25.5 ± 6.4

11.7 ± 9.5

% Night in ARS forageb

lm

0.1

0.74

15.8 ± 5.5

14.0 ± 11.0

% Day in drifta

gls

2.7

0.10*

2.7 ± 2.5

3.8 ± 7.4

% Night in drifta

gls

18.5

0.00001**

7.0 ± 9.0

16.7 ± 16.9

% Day in drift forage

lm

0.8

0.48

4.9 ± 3.6

8.0 ± 6.1

% Night in drift forage

lm

16.3

0.001**

8.1 ± 8.8

34.2 ± 17.0

Day landing ratea

lm

0.81

0.38

1.59 ± 0.43

1.37 ± 0.64

Night landing ratea

lm

7.8

0.01**

0.86 ± 0.37

2.12 ± 1.36

Track characteristics

Daily travel

gls

7.6

0.02**

635 ± 124

443 ± 147

Max distance

gls

2.0

0.17

691 ± 355

421 ± 354

Total distance

gls

9.9

0.009**

1425 ± 380

716 ± 385

Trip duration

lm

1.6

0.23

2.57 ± 0.6

2.03 ± 0.9

  1. A linear model (lm) was used when homogeneity was not violated and a generalized least squares model (gls) was applied when parameters showed heterogeneity, incorporating a ‘varIdent’ variance structure
  2. Significance was set at P ≤ 0.05 (**) and marginal significance to P ≤ 0.1 (*)
  3. alog10-transformed for gls or lm
  4. bsquare-root transformed for gls or lm