Natal habitat imprinting counteracts the diversifying effects of phenotype-dependent dispersal in a spatially structured population

Table 1 Results of the GLMM (binomial error distribution and logit link function) analyzing the effects of the experimental treatment (cross-fostering within and between habitats), life stage of cross-fostering (egg and nestling), sex, proximity to the adjacent habitat patch, breeding date, rearing patch, body size (tarsus length) and the interaction between rearing patch and body size on birds’ propensity to return to the habitat where they had been raised (0 = return to breed in the non-rearing patch; 1 = return to breed in the rearing patch)

	Estimate	SE	Z	P
Intercept	0.963	0.218	4. 414	<0.001
Experimental treatment	0.243	0.442	0.550	0.582
Life stage of cross-fostering	0.214	0.456	0.470	0.638
Sex	−0.602	0.447	−1.345	0.179
Breeding date	0.012	0.055	0.228	0.819
Proximity to adjacent patch	0.000	0.001	1.083	0.279
Tarsus length	0.129	0.453	0.286	0.775
Rearing patch	−0.036	0.437	−0.083	0.934
Tarsus length x Rearing patch	−0.893	1.006	−0.888	0.375

Number of returning birds = 105; Number of years = 8; Number of nests = 83. Estimates and P-values of non-significant (removed) variables are from when they were added alone to a null model containing only the random effects

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