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Charles B. Yackulic, James D. Nichols, Janice Reid, Ricky Der. 2015. To predict the niche, model colonization and extinction. Ecology 96:16–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1361.1

Appendix B. Model selection results for Eurasian Collared Dove and House Finch case studies.

In each table, the first column refers to the step in which the model was introduced (see Methods), the next four columns refer to model structure, and the last three columns report the relative performance and complexity of the models. Within the tables, "constant" means that only an intercept was estimated for that model component, "HII" indicates that the human influence index was included as a covariate, "AL" indicates that an autologistic covariate was included, "stop" means that detection was allowed to vary among the five stops at each site (detection probability was thought to be influenced by time of day), and year means that detection was allowed to vary between each year.

Eurasian Collared Dove in Florida

Step

Initial occupancy

Colonization

Extinction

Detection

ΔAIC

AIC

Number of parameters

4

HII

AL + HII

constant

stop

0

2998.08

11

3

constant

AL + HII

constant

stop

6.87

3004.95

10

3

constant

AL + HII

HII

stop

8.82

3006.9

11

2

constant

AL

constant

stop

17.72

3015.8

9

2

constant

AL

AL

stop

19.5

3017.58

10

3

constant

AL

HII

stop

19.71

3017.79

10

1

constant

constant

constant

stop

21.4

3019.48

8

2

constant

constant

AL

stop

23.32

3021.4

9

1

constant

constant

constant

stop + year

27.03

3025.11

25

1

constant

constant

constant

constant

1055.26

4053.34

4

1

constant

constant

constant

year

1068.06

4066.14

21

 

House Finch in New York

Step

Initial occupancy

Colonization

Extinction

Detection

ΔAIC

AIC

Number of parameters

3

constant

AL + HII

AL + HII

stop + year

0

8097.74

49

4

HII

AL + HII

AL + HII

stop + year

0.66

8098.4

50

3

constant

AL + HII

HII

stop + year

3.5

8101.24

48

3

constant

AL + HII

constant

stop + year

15.79

8113.53

47

3

constant

AL

HII

stop + year

32.46

8130.2

47

2

constant

AL

constant

stop + year

42.68

8140.42

46

2

constant

AL

AL

stop + year

48.13

8145.87

47

2

constant

constant

AL

stop + year

105.8

8203.54

46

1

constant

constant

constant

stop + year

113.07

8210.81

45

1

constant

constant

constant

stop

326.71

8424.45

8

1

constant

constant

constant

year

2722.92

10820.66

41

1

constant

constant

constant

constant

2878.2

10975.94

4


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