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Table 2 Summary of the statistical model showing the relationship between daytime activity and the four main events of the annual cycle (summer, winter, autumn migration and spring migration)

From: Activity patterns throughout the annual cycle in a long-distance migratory songbird, the red-backed shrike Lanius collurio

Predictors

Estimates

95% CI

DF

p value

(Intercept) [ref. Autumn migration]

− 0.07

− 0.83 to 0.68

4686

0.847

Events [Spring migration]

0.84

0.49 to 1.19

4686

 < 0.001

Events [Summer]

− 0.48

− 0.89 to − 0.08

4686

0.020

Events [Winter]

− 0.06

− 0.34 to 0.23

4686

0.706

Sex [M]

0.27

− 0.35 to 0.90

12

0.357

Daylength

0.33

0.29 to 0.37

4686

 < 0.001

Events [Spring migration] * Sex [M]

− 0.12

− 0.53 to 0.28

4686

0.543

Events [Summer] * Sex[M]

1.94

1.52 to 2.36

4686

 < 0.001

Events [Winter] * Sex [M]

0.29

− 0.03 to 0.62

4686

0.078

Random effects

    

Std dev

0.4

0.26 to 0.62

  

N Individual

14

   

Observations

4707

   

Marginal R2/Conditional R2

0.382/0.451

   

Correlation Structure: ARMA(1,0)

Formula: ~ day | Individual

   

Phi

0.54

0.52 to 0.56

  
  1. Statistically significant parameters are highlighted in bold. Model formula: sqrt(Activity) ~ events * Sex + daylength, random =  ~ 1|Individual, correlation = corAR1(value = 0, form =  ~ day|Individual)