Table 2. Ranking of candidate models describing variables influencing daily mean 2-week recession rate use of Great Egrets, White Ibises, and Wood Storks in the Florida Everglades (Proc Mixed).

GREAT EGRET MODEL	Kb	AICcc	modelid	ΔAICcd	wie	R2
Recess, Recess SD, Depth SD, Depth*Recess	6	-337.7	23	0.00	0.44	0.95
Recess, Recess SD, Recess2, Depth SD, Depth*Recess, Recess*DSD	8	-335.5	9	2.23	0.14
Recess, Recess SD, Recess, Depth, Depth SD, Depth*Recess, Cells	9	-334.9	8	2.85	0.11
Variable	N	Avg PE	SE	Importance
Intercept	27	0.123	0.04	1.00
Recess	16	1.074	0.04	1.00
Recess SD	10	0.247	0.05	1.00
Depth SD	10	-0.012	0.00	0.98
Depth*Recess	10	-0.004	0.00	0.83
WHITE IBIS MODEL	Kb	AICcc	modelid	ΔAICcd	wie	R2
Recess, Recess SD, Depth*Recess	5	-281.5	23	0.00	0.34	0.95
Recess, Recess SD, Recess2, Depth*Recess	6	-281.1	8	0.46	0.27
Recess, Recess SD, Recess2, Depth SD, DSD, Depth*DSD, Depth*Recess, Depth*DSD	9	-279.5	26	2.01	0.13
Variable	N	Avg PE	SE	Importance
Intercept	27	0.017	0.02	1.00
Recess	16	1.156	0.04	1.00
Recess SD	10	0.150	0.11	1.00
Depth*Recess	10	-0.013	0.05	1.00
WOOD STORK MODEL	Kb	AICcc	modelid	ΔAICcd	wie	R2
Recess, Recess SD, Depth SD, Depth*Recess	6	-46.9	24	0.00	0.33	0.85
Recess, Recess SD, Recess2, Depth SD, Depth*Recess, Recess*DSD	8	-46.5	26	0.41	0.27
Recess, Recess SD, Depth SD, Depth*Recess, Recess*DSD	7	-45.0	9	1.83	0.13
Recess, Recess SD, Depth*Recess	5	-45.0	23	1.91	0.13
Variable	N	Avg PE	SE	Importance
Intercept	27	0.055	0.08	1.00
Recess	18	1.128	0.07	1.00
Recess SD	12	0.560	0.11	1.00
Depth*Recess	10	-0.010	0.00	1.00
Depth SD	12	-0.011	0.00	0.97

Models are ranked by differences in Akaike’s information criterion and only candidate models within ΔAIC_c ^d ≤ 4.0 are presented. Model selection results are followed by model averaging results for each species. The R² represents the model fit for the estimated mean daily recession rate use vs. model averaged predicted values.