Table 3.

Model selection results for the examination of cohort slope in relation to birth and lifetime density, and climatic conditions during the cohort's birth year, and first, second and third breeding seasons (averaged SOI values from January through April). (Global indicates the full model. Description of column headings is the same as given in table legend 1. Ten candidate models were considered (including a null model); w_i values for models not shown were less than 0.01.)

model	ln(L)	AICc	ΔAICc	k	wi
birth density+SOI 2nd+SOI 3rd	−37.83	83.70	0.00	4	0.69
SOI 2nd+SOI 3rd	−40.22	86.47	2.08	3	0.24
global	−35.97	86.06	5.95	7	0.04
birth density+SOI 3rd	−42.67	91.37	6.94	3	0.02