Forest Succession and Maternity Day Roost Selection by Myotis septentrionalis in a Mesophytic Hardwood Forest
Table 6
Rankings of models used to compare Myotis septentrionalis sassafras day roosts to day roosts of other species on the Fort Knox military reservation in Hardin, Bullitt, and Meade counties, Kentucky, USA, 2011. Model parameters are given as well as number of parameters (), Akaike’s information criteria (AIC) value, difference in AIC value between top model and th model (), and model support ().
Model
AIC
dbh + height + decay + percent bark
10
116.67
0.00
0.65
dbh + height
4
118.12
1.44
0.31
dbh + height + decay + percent bark + percent Slope + sin (aspect) + cos (aspect) + elevation + gap Fraction + LAI + PPFD
17
122.38
5.71
0.04
Decay + percent bark + gap fraction + LAI + PPFD
11
136.32
19.65
<0.001
Decay + percent bark
8
141.22
24.55
<0.001
Gap fraction + LAI + PPFD
5
146.88
30.20
<0.001
Null model
2
147.48
30.80
<0.001
Percent + sin (aspect) + cos (aspect) + elevation + gap Fraction + LAI + PPFD
9
152.20
35.53
<0.001
Percent slope + sin (aspect) + cos (aspect) + elevation
