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Table 7 Linear models for proportion of time spent in hulls within categories 5 to 6 (very frequent visitation) for grey seals, Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 2009–2011 and 2013–2015

From: Sex-differences in fine-scale home-range use in an upper-trophic level marine predator

Model

K

AICc

∆AICc

w

LL

Bm

3

−90.1

0

0.21

48.2

Bm + Sn

4

−89.8

0.31

0.18

49.1

~

2

−89.5

0.64

0.15

46.8

Sx

3

−88.8

1.38

0.1

47.5

Sn

3

−88.5

1.64

0.09

47.4

Bm + Sx

4

−88.1

2.07

0.07

48.2

Sx + Sn

4

−87.9

2.25

0.07

48.1

Sn + Sx + Bm

5

−87.7

2.44

0.06

49.1

Sn + Sx + Sn * Sx

5

−87.0

3.14

0.04

48.8

Bm + Sn + Sx + Sn * Sx

6

− 86.6

3.54

0.04

49.7

  1. Fixed effects of each candidate model are body mass at deployment (Bm) and sex (Sx), Nseals= 81. Variables for model selection are Akaike’s information criteria (AICc, ΔAICc), Akaike weights (w) and log likelihood (LL)