Table 5. Ranking of candidate models describing variables influencing daily individual abundance of Great Egrets, White Ibises, and Wood Storks in the Florida Everglades (Proc Mixed).
| GREAT EGRET MODEL | Kb | AICcc | modelid | ΔAICcd | wie | R2 |
| Depth A, Depth SD, Depth2, DSD SD, Reversal, Depth Use*Depth | 9 | 797.6 | 12 | 0.00 | 0.44 | 0.35 |
| Depth A, Depth SD, Depth2, Recess2, DSD SD, Reversal, Depth Use*Depth | 9 | 797.6 | 2 | 0.08 | 0.42 | |
| Variable | N | Avg PE | SE | Importance | ||
| Intercept | 27 | 3.176 | 0.54 | 1.00 | ||
| Reversal | 10 | -2.482 | 0.44 | 1.00 | ||
| Depth Use*Depth | 11 | 0.005 | 0.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Depth SD | 9 | 0.268 | 0.05 | 1.00 | ||
| DSD SD | 9 | 0.005 | 0.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Depth2 | 11 | -0.003 | 0.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Depth A | 9 | -0.109 | 0.04 | 1.00 | ||
| WHITE IBIS MODEL | Kb | AICcc | modelid | ΔAICcd | wie | R2 |
| Depth A, Depth SD, Depth2, Recess SD, DSD, DSD2, Reversal, Depth Use*Depth | 10 | 888.3 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.75 | 0.31 |
| Depth SD, Depth2, Recess SD, DSD, Reversal, DSD Use*DSD | 8 | 891.3 | 11 | 2.98 | 0.17 | |
| Variable | N | Avg PE | SE | Importance | ||
| Intercept | 27 | 2.764 | 0.72 | 1.00 | ||
| DSD | 13 | 0.008 | 0.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Reversal | 9 | -2.946 | 0.66 | 1.00 | ||
| Depth SD | 9 | 0.336 | 0.10 | 1.00 | ||
| Recess SD | 11 | 1.590 | 0.63 | 1.00 | ||
| Depth2 | 9 | -0.003 | 0.00 | 1.00 | ||
| Depth A | 9 | -0.167 | 0.08 | 0.87 | ||
| DSD2 | 10 | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.76 | ||
| Depth Use*Depth | 9 | 0.007 | 0.00 | 0.76 | ||
| WOOD STORK MODEL | Kb | AICcc | modelid | ΔAICcd | wie | R2 |
| Depth A, Depth SD, Depth2, Recess SD, Recess2, Reversal, Depth Use*Depth | 9 | 481.1 | 5 | 0.00 | 0.79 | 0.30 |
| Depth A, Depth, Depth SD, Depth2, Recess, Recess SD, Recess2, DSD SD, Reversal, Depth Use*Depth | 12 | 484.9 | 6 | 3.72 | 0.12 | |
| Variable | N | Avg PE | SE | Importance | ||
| Intercept | 27 | 2.794 | 0.39 | 1.00 | ||
| Depth SD | 11 | 0.141 | 0.38 | 1.00 | ||
| Depth A | 10 | -0.114 | 0.03 | 1.00 | ||
| Reversal | 9 | -1.471 | 0.58 | 0.99 | ||
| Recess SD | 9 | 0.907 | 0.48 | 0.98 | ||
| Recess2 | 13 | -0.338 | 0.13 | 0.98 | ||
| Depth Use*Depth | 9 | 0.003 | 0.00 | 0.94 | ||
| Depth2 | 9 | -0.001 | 0.00 | 0.94 |
Models are ranked by differences in Akaike’s information criterion and only candidate models within ΔAICc 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 daily individual abundance vs. model averaged predicted values.