Table 1. Modelling shearwater breeding success.
Model | Notation | Estimates | se | Z | p |
1 | Intercept | 0.668 | 0.147 | 4.544 | <0.001 |
R | −0.651 | 0.090 | −7.225 | <0.001 | |
H | 0.4182 | 0.139 | 2.999 | <0.01 | |
R×H | 0.3710 | 0.098 | 3.779 | <0.001 | |
2 | Intercept | 0.661 | 0.147 | 4.495 | <0.001 |
R | −0.653 | 0.090 | −7.232 | <0.001 | |
R×H | 0.405 | 0.083 | 4.886 | <0.001 |
The effect of rat abundance (R), habitat structure (H) and their statistical interaction (R×H) on shearwater breeding success has been modelled through logistic regressions using the breeding output of 101 nests monitored from 1997 to 2007. The nest identity was taken as a random effect to account for multiple entries from the same nest.