Table 4.

Linear mixed‐effects models predicting invertebrate biomass for shorebird broods that were 2–10 days old in relation to seasonal hatch date (number of days after the date of 20% snow cover a nest hatched) and date of 20% snow cover (snow) near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, 2010–2016

Modela	K b	ΔAICc c	wi d
Seasonal hatch date2*snow2	9	0.0	1.00
Seasonal hatch date2*snow	6	52.9	0.00
Seasonal hatch date*snow	4	200.6	0.00
Seasonal hatch date*snow2	6	202.2	0.00
Seasonal hatch date2 + snow2	5	375.1	0.00
Intercept	1	1,251.9	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.