Table 3. Candidate multilevel mixed effects models of consumptive effects from predators, fitted to dataset of effect sizes where larval instar is not missing (n = 163 from 30 studies), and ranked by corrected Akaike’s information criterion (AICc).
| Moderator(s) | Test of moderators(degrees of freedom, p-value) | AICc | ΔAICc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Predator family x larval instar | 25, < 0.0001 | 429.2 | 0 |
| Predator family + larval instar | 19, < 0.0001 | 443.5 | 14.3 |
| Predator family x vector genus | 25, < 0.0001 | 455.0 | 25.8 |
| Predator family | 17, < 0.0001 | 456.8 | 27.6 |
| Predator family + vector genus | 21, < 0.0001 | 458.4 | 29.2 |
| Larval instar | 3, < 0.0001 | 503.1 | 73.9 |
| Vector genus | 5, < 0.0001 | 504.7 | 75.5 |
| None | ---- | 508.5 | 79.3 |