Figure 3. Relationship of hatching success with the number of cold days and length of incubation period.

The warped regression plane was fitted from a linear regression to illustrate the interacting effects of the two predictors on hatching success. Open circles are the data points in 3D space defined by the three variables. Grey dots on the bottom grid of the graph show the relationship between the number of cold days and length of incubation period. Arrows highlight the slopes of the relationships between hatching success and number of cold days when incubation is short (white) or long (black), and between hatching success and length of incubation when number of cold days is high (light-grey) or low (dark-grey).