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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Avian Biol. 2015 Mar 1;46(2):206–215. doi: 10.1111/jav.00508

Table 3.

Group and subgroup level measures.

Non-breeding I Non-breeding II Pre-breeding Parental care
Network % % % %
(a) Mean degree ± SD
 Spatial proximity 78.02 ± 13.59 95.56 ± 7.37 72.73 ± 21.00 64.76 ± 17.89
 Feeding behavior 6.59 ± 2.69 6.67 ± 5.44 7.58 ± 3.39 6.67 ± 4.96
 Sociopositive behavior 13.19 ± 6.12 11.11 ± 0.00 9.09 ± 5.25 4.76 ± 3.61
Network τ rw p τ rw p τ rw p τ rw p
(b) Relative reciprocity (network and its transposed form)
 Spatial proximity 0.361 < 0.001*** 0.567 < 0.001*** 0.494 < 0.001*** 0.295 < 0.001***
 Feeding behavior 0.667 < 0.001*** 0 n.s. 0.333 0.004** 0.120 0.018*
 Sociopositive behavior 0.735 < 0.001*** 0.889 < 0.001*** 0.895 < 0.001*** 0.560 < 0.001***
Network R 2 p R 2 p R 2 p R 2 p
(C) Homophily
 Spatial proximity 0.636 < 0.001*** 0.889 < 0.001*** 0.901 < 0.001*** 0.573 < 0.001***
 Feeding behavior 0.297 < 0.001*** 0.252 < 0.001*** 0.362 < 0.001*** 0.162 0.005**
 Sociopositive behavior 0.428 < 0.001*** 0.588 0.001*** 0.740 < 0.001*** 0.375 < 0.001***

(a) Mean degree (average number of ties connected to a node) given in its normalized version, (b) relative reciprocity between a network and its transposed form (row-wise matrix correlations; 10 000 permutations) and (c) constant homophily models according to membership in discrete pair bonds (10 000 permutations); see text for definitions. Periods are: non-breeding I (n = 14); non-breeding II (n = 10); pre-breeding (n = 12); post-fledging parental care (n = 21).

juveniles omitted from the model; n = 14.

Significant results are given in bold:

*

p ≤ 0.05;

**

p ≤ 0.01;

***

p ≤ 0.001.