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Table 2 Summary of the modelling outputs for dive segments of 30, 60, 180 and 300 s. Models were run 100 times, and the significance of explanatory dive metrics was evaluated with p values < 0.01. Median and standard deviation (shown in brackets) values for marginal and conditional R2 were obtained from the sensitivity analysis with 100 model runs

From: Predictive model of sperm whale prey capture attempts from time-depth data

Segment duration

Dive metric

Estimate

Std. Error

Z value

n-significant (n/100)

R2 marginal

R2 conditional

30 s

Average depth

1.14014

0.06897

16.53

100/100

0.13 (0.03)

0.13 (0.03)

Variance depth

-0.14611

0.04566

-3.2

98/100

Variance vertical velocity

0.23185

0.01722

13.46

100/100

60 s

Average depth

0.99658

0.07358

13.544

100/100

0.22 (0.04)

0.24 (0.04)

Variance depth

-0.35951

0.06249

-5.753

100/100

Variance vertical velocity

0.23359

0.02049

11.399

100/100

180s

Average depth

0.95534

0.06617

14.437

100/100

0.46 (0.05)

0.49 (0.05)

Variance depth

-0.35571

0.06988

-5.09

100/100

Variance vertical velocity

0.18681

0.02726

6.854

100/100

300s

Average depth

0.57066

0.04762

11.984

100/100

0.54 (0.04)

0.58 (0.04)

Variance depth

-0.46369

0.06395

-7.25

100/100

Variance vertical velocity

0.21382

0.02832

7.551

100/100