Avoiding perceived past resource use of potential competitors affects niche dynamics in a bird community

Table 1 Summary of the model explaining symbol preferences of the great tit and the collared flycatcher

Parameter estimates (posterior means) and their 95% highest posterior density credibility intervals of fixed effects of the final generalized linear mixed-effects model fitted by MCMC simulation to the data on collared flycatcher and great tit symbol choices. The parameter ‘trait’ denotes the response variables [i.e. the probabilities of choosing a symbol associated with collared flycatcher (CF) or tit nests] in this multinomial logistic regression model. This model was fitted to the data restricted to the 261 observations where individual identities were known. See Additional file 1: Table S1 for parameter estimates of the starting model. Random effects included female and male identities (ring numbers) by allowing different variances among individuals in different years, and box identities.

ISSN: 2730-7182