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. 2020 May 7;17:13. doi: 10.1186/s12983-020-00360-2

Table 4.

Factors affecting the probability of nest abandonment by parakeets between 2014 and 2015. Estimates and 95% confidence intervals (2.5 and 97.5%) were assessed after model averaging (ΔAIC ≤2). We considered that a given variable has no, weak or strong support when the 95% confidence interval strongly overlapped zero, barely overlapped zero (*), or did not overlap zero (**), respectively. Models were run separately for 2014 and 2015. k: number of parameters. AICc: Akaike Information Criterion corrected for small sample sizes. ΔAICc: difference between the AICc of model i and that of the best-supported model (i.e. the model with the lowest AICc); w: Akaike weights. R2: measure of how well the model explains the data

Model k AICc ΔAICc weight Variables Estimate 2.5% 97.5%
abandon stork + conspecific density 3 31.88 0 0.37 abandon stork 3.83 0.82 6.85 **
abandon stork 2 32.95 1.07 0.22 conspecific density −1.03 −2.31 0.25 *
abandon stork + substrate 3 33.01 1.13 0.21 substrate (pylon) 1.81 −0.81 4.43 *
abandon stork + predation risk 3 33.23 1.35 0.19 predation risk −0.87 −2.20 0.47 *
predation risk + conspecific density 3 41.39 9.52 0.00
Null 1 41.42 9.55 0.00
conspecific density + substrate 3 42.19 10.32 0.00
Substrate 2 42.89 11.02 0.00
predation risk 2 42.95 11.08 0.00
conspecific density 2 42.96 11.08 0.00
predation risk + conspecific density + substrate 4 43.43 11.56 0.00
predation risk + substrate 3 45.27 13.39 0.00

R2 = 0.45