Table 1.
Model selection results for plant characteristics influencing browsing by pygmy rabbits on sagebrush at the Leadore study site, Idaho, and Camas Prairie study site, Idaho. Number of parameters (K), Akaike’s Information Criterion corrected for small sample size (AICc), change in AICc from the top model (ΔAICc), and model weights (wi) from top conditional logistic regression models and the null model.
| Site | Model | K | AICc | ΔAICc | wi |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leadore | Crude protein + Artemiseole | 2 | 51.64 | 0 | 0.23 |
| Crude protein + Artemiseole + unknown #7 | 3 | 53.52 | 1.87 | 0.09 | |
| Crude protein + Artemiseole + total phenolics | 3 | 53.59 | 1.94 | 0.09 | |
| Crude protein + Artemiseole + unknown #3 | 3 | 53.61 | 1.96 | 0.09 | |
| Null | 0 | 61.50 | 9.85 | 0.00 | |
| Camas Prairie | Crude protein | 1 | 53.04 | 0 | 0.17 |
| Crude protein + β-pinene | 2 | 53.72 | 0.68 | 0.12 | |
| Null | 0 | 53.75 | 0.71 | 0.12 | |
| β-pinene | 1 | 53.94 | 0.90 | 0.11 |