Table 3. These model factors and interactions were sequentially eliminated from the initial model at the given P-value.

Model factor	P-value
sex*ice_conc	0.3989
sex*sea_ice	0.3988
sex*sqrt(d2coast)	0.3964
sex*sqrt(d21kiso)	0.3911
sex*ice_conc2	0.3818
sqrt(d2coast)	0.3749
sex*depth_m	0.2960
sex*sea_ice*sqrt(d2ice)	0.3092
sex*sqrt(d2ice)	0.2252
depth_m	0.1354
sqrt(d21kiso)	0.1920
sex	0.0863