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. 2016 Oct;12(10):20160457. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0457

Table 2.

Final GLM results for response metrics in all years pooled at three radii from glacial fronts. Bold numbers indicate p < 0.05. GLMs at 10 km were estimated with quasi-likelihood model structures to account for overdispersion for sum total visits (all time periods) and proportion of narwhals visiting glaciers. Dashes indicate covariate was not included in the final model; blanks indicate models fail to converge at the smaller radii.

narwhal response covariate 10 km radius
7 km radius
5 km radius
estimate s.e. p-value estimate s.e. p-value estimate s.e. p-value
sum total visits glacier ice velocity −0.001 0.000 0.016 −0.001 0.000 0.005 −0.001 0.001 0.036
glacier ice thickness 0.013 0.002 <0.001 0.015 0.003 <0.001 0.015 0.005 0.001
proportion visiting glaciers glacier ice velocity −0.001 0.000 0.042 −0.001 0.000 0.126
front width (2000s) 0.001 0.000 0.030
glacier ice thickness 0.008 0.002 <0.001 0.014 0.003 <0.001 0.012 0.004 0.003
probability of visiting a glacier glacier ice velocity −0.003 0.002 0.067 −0.002 0.001 0.088
glacier ice thickness 0.025 0.009 0.004 0.084 0.031 0.008 0.022 0.009 0.013
subglacial water discharge −1.780 0.967 0.065 −6.966 4.247 0.101
iceberg discharge extent 2.611 1.352 0.053
bathymetry: max. depth −0.012 0.007 0.095