Table 4.
Ranking of models designed for testing the effect of sand and below-ground organs for sediment stabilization in Ammophila arenaria with samples from the natural and restored sites
| Model | d.f. | Log likelihood | AICc | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sand + TotBLW | 4 | −26.051 | 62.8 | 0.519 |
| Sand + BLW shoots | 4 | −26.894 | 64.5 | 0.223 |
| Sand + TotRB + BLW shoots | 5 | −25.523 | 65.3 | 0.144 |
| Sand + TotRB | 4 | −28.074 | 66.8 | 0.069 |
| Sand | 3 | −30.251 | 68.0 | 0.038 |
| TotRB | 3 | −31.886 | 71.3 | 0.007 |
| TotBLW | 3 | −35.279 | 78.1 | 0.000 |
| BLW shoots | 3 | −36.114 | 79.7 | 0.000 |
Sand, coarse sand; TotRB, total root biomass (rhizomes + coarse roots + fine roots); BLW shoots, shoots buried under the sediment; TotBLW, total below-ground biomass (shoots + rhizomes + coarse roots + fine roots); AICc, Akaike information criterion corrected for small sample size.