Table 2. Results of habitat modeling for WESE.

Results of the best logistic regression model to describe WESE presence on >260,000 km² of Antarctic fast ice during November 2011 (df = 2885.000, AIC = 2956.328, residual deviance = 2878.328).

	Variable	Coefficient	SE	z_value	Prob_t
1	(Intercept)	91.625	14.321	6.386	0.000
2	scaledmeanslope	0.337	0.154	2.199	0.028
3	I(scaledmeanslope^2)	−0.079	0.035	−2.278	0.023
4	logmeanbathy	0.261	0.083	3.119	0.002
5	adpepresentno	−17.469	4.071	−4.291	0.000
6	logadpedist	2.721	0.973	2.806	0.005
7	empepresentno	11.751	3.637	3.174	0.002
8	logempedist	−12.317	1.571	−7.804	0.000
9	I(logempedist^2)	0.559	0.075	7.463	0.000
10	I(logadpedist^2)	−0.166	0.053	−3.156	0.002
11	logEMPEabund	−0.14	0.047	−2.956	0.003
12	logADPEabund	−0.024	0.047	−0.503	0.615
13	RegionA-B-WAP	−44.96	10.77	−4.176	0.000
14	RegionEAnt	−38.456	10.593	−3.629	0.000
15	RegionWedd_Sea	−44.122	10.695	−4.13	0.000
16	PredictabilityOct5Years	−0.289	0.081	−3.562	0.000
17	logdistToShore	3.447	0.51	6.773	0.000
18	I(logdistToShore^2)	−0.257	0.032	−7.909	0.000
19	logcont300dist	−2.338	0.726	−3.218	0.001
20	InCanyon	−2.068	0.674	−3.069	0.002
21	fastIceRatio	0.89	0.635	1.397	0.162
22	logglacierdist	−1.145	0.245	−4.645	0.000
23	adpepresentno:logadpedist	1.654	0.371	4.453	0.000
24	empepresentno:logempedist	−1.071	0.305	−3.453	0.001
25	logADPEabund:RegionA-B-WAP	−0.162	0.089	−1.817	0.069
26	logADPEabund:RegionEAnt	0.095	0.04	2.416	0.016
27	logADPEabund:RegionWedd_Sea	−0.021	0.068	−0.328	0.743
28	RegionA-B-WAP:PredictabilityOct5Years	−0.208	0.132	−1.581	0.114
29	RegionEAnt:PredictabilityOct5Years	0.206	0.086	2.404	0.016
30	RegionWedd_Sea:PredictabilityOct5Years	−0.105	0.111	−0.952	0.341
31	RegionA-B-WAP:logcont300dist	2.256	0.728	3.094	0.002
32	RegionEAnt:logcont300dist	2.176	0.728	2.987	0.003
33	RegionWedd_Sea:logcont300dist	2.326	0.731	3.181	0.001
34	RegionA-B-WAP:fastIceRatio	−2.029	0.787	−2.581	0.01
35	RegionEAnt:fastIceRatio	−0.526	0.688	−0.758	0.448
36	RegionWedd_Sea:fastIceRatio	−1.442	0.738	−1.951	0.051
37	RegionA-B-WAP:logglacierdist	1.492	0.317	4.696	0.000
38	RegionEAnt:logglacierdist	0.854	0.254	3.342	0.001
39	RegionWedd_Sea:logglacierdist	1.244	0.286	4.34	0.001