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. 2013 Apr 17;8(4):e60998. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060998

Table 3. The effects of life history variables on % total incubation and % female share.

Full day Daytime Night time
(nnests  = 285; nrecords  = 1615) (nnests  = 280; nrecords  = 968) (nnests  = 150; nrecords  = 647)
Model ?2 (df) p ?2 (df) p ?2 (df) p
Total incubation
Population 32.95 (1) <0.0001 17.40 (1) <0.0001 60.21 (1) < 0.0001
Time period 165.96 (11) <0.0001 93.09 (5) <0.0001 92.82 (5) < 0.0001
Clutch age 0.02 (1) 0.9010 0.28 (1) 0.5992 0.27 (1) 0.6041
Egg laying date 4.04 (1) 0.0445 0.79 (1) 0.3728 8.36 (1) 0.0038
Female share
Population 8.67 (1) 0.0032 16.02 (1) < 0.0001 3.89 (1) 0.0487
Time period 829.30 (11) <0.0001 76.06 (5) < 0.0001 264.82 (5) < 0.0001
Clutch age 0.33 (1) 0.5654 1.31 (1) 0.2531 5.90 (1) 0.0151
Egg laying date 0.70 (1) 0.4025 3.80 (1) 0.05121 1.57 (1) 0.2104

Analysis for the full day (0–24 h), daytime (6–18 h) and night (18–6 h) data are shown separately.

Notes.

The full models included time period, clutch age, egg laying date as fixed terms and population random intercept term. The significance of each predictor was assessed by eliminating it from the full model and comparing the fit of the two models using likelihood ratio test.