Table 1.

Model selection results predicting invertebrate biomass in relation to growing degree days (GDD; included as a quadratic term), temperature (temp), percentage of days with precipitation (precip%), wind speed (wind), and date of 20% snow cover (snow) near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, 2010–2016

Modela	K b	ΔAICc c	wi d
GDD2 + temp + precip% + wind + snow	7	0.0	0.79
GDD2 + temp + wind + snow	6	3.2	0.16
GDD2 + temp + precip% + wind	6	6.9	0.03
GDD2 + temp + precip% + snow	6	8.5	0.01
GDD2 + temp + wind	5	10.5	0.00
Intercept	1	92.7	0.00

^aOnly the top five models and intercept‐only model are shown.

^bNumber of parameters.

^cDifference between model's Akaike's Information Criterion corrected for sample size (AIC_c) and the lowest AIC_c value.

^dAIC_c relative weight attributed to model.