. 2013 Jul 29;8(7):e69863. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069863

Table 3. Results of the relationship between coral cover at Ningaloo Reef and explanatory variables using general linear mixed-effects model comparison based on Akaike’s information criterion (AIC_c) corrected for small sample sizes.

Model	df	–LL	AIC_c	_wAIC_c	%DE
Intercept only (cover ∼1)	4	−774.9794	1557.9587	0.0000	0.0000
Slope (year∼cover)	23	−747.6121	1541.2243	0.0000	3.5314
Habitat (year∼hab)	27	−736.8372	1527.6745	0.0000	4.9217
Area (year∼cover+area)	24	−753.02	1554.0400	0.0000	2.8335
Latitude (year∼cover+ lat)	57	−691.0784	1496.1568	0.9097	10.8262
All (year∼cover+area+hab+lat)	62	−688.3889	1500.7778	0.0903	11.1733

All models include the random effect ‘sampling site’. For each of the models contrasted, maximum log-likelihood (-LL), AIC_c, AIC weight (_wAIC_c), and the % deviation explained (%DE) are shown..

Table 3. Results of the relationship between coral cover at Ningaloo Reef and explanatory variables using general linear mixed-effects model comparison based on Akaike’s information criterion (AICc) corrected for small sample sizes.

Table 3. Results of the relationship between coral cover at Ningaloo Reef and explanatory variables using general linear mixed-effects model comparison based on Akaike’s information criterion (AIC_c) corrected for small sample sizes.