Effects of meteorological conditions on brood care in cooperatively breeding carrion crow and consequences on reproductive success

Table 2 Variables associated with alternation of nest visits

Fixed terms	Estimate ± SE	z value	p value
Group size	0.560 ± 0.081	6.920	< 0.001
Age chicks	0.009 ± 0.009	0.996	0.319
Laying Julian date	0.003 ± 0.004	0.687	0.492
Brood size	0.059 ± 0.040	1.483	0.139
Day time 1	0.063 ± 0.049	1.279	0.201
Day time 2	0.018 ± 0.040	0.456	0.648
Temperature	− 0.018 ± 0.008	− 2.267	0.023
Days since rain	− 0.009 ± 0.010	− 0.937	0.349

Results of Generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) with binomial error distribution fitted by maximum likelihood (Laplace Approximation). Significant p values are highlighted in bold. Temperature refers to average hourly air temperature for the corresponding daytime period.

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