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Table 2 Estimating staging and detection probabilities of northern wheatears

From: Stopover optimization in a long-distance migrant: the role of fuel load and nocturnal take-off time in Alaskan northern wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe)

Predictors

Mean

2.5%

97.5%

Rhat

n.eff

Staging probability

     

intercept (α 1 )

0.120

-2.071

2.527

1.002

3500

daysa (α 2 )

-0.105

-0.766

0.536

1.002

2700

day.c t 3 )

-0.215

-0.484

0.014

1.002

2300

afl.z i 4 )

-0.173

-1.183

0.724

1.001

6200

temp.z t 5 )

-0.096

-1.288

1.264

1.002

1600

wind.z t 6 )

-0.205

-1.101

0.674

1.002

2100

twc.z t 7 )

0.178

-0.746

1.139

1.002

2700

indfirst i,t 8 )

-2.892

-5.374

-0.681

1.002

2300

afl.z i x day.c t 9 )

-0.225

-0.162

-0.063

1.001

5500

Detection probability

     

Intercept (β 1 )

2.133

-0.229

5.295

1.001

3800

radio-tagged i 2 )

27.680

3.874

71.780

1.001

22000

surfwind.z t+1 3 )

-1.712

-3.535

-0.3778

1.001

8900

deviance

21.891

15.030

37.360

1.001

4100

  1. Parameter estimates of factors influencing the staging probability Φ (the probability that a bird survives 24 hours and remains at the stopover site, α-values) and the detection probability p (the probability of detecting an individual wheatear during one day, β-values) for the first CJS-model fitted to data of 75 individuals. Significant effects, i.e., 95% credible interval does not include 0, are given in bold. Given are the mean, the 2.5% and 97.5% quantiles of the posterior distributions. Rhat values larger than 1.01 indicate non-convergence [59]. Parameters estimating the staging probability: daysa = day since arrival; day.c = day since start of study (centered); afl.z = arrival fuel load (standardized); temp.z = surface temperature (standardized); wind.z = surface wind speed (standardized); twc.z = tail wind component (standardized); indfirst = index variable indicating the day of arrival, with that variable we could account for individuals that disappeared from our study site shortly after capture and behaved as transients; afl.z x day.c = interaction of arrival fuel load and day since start of study. Parameters estimating the detection probability: radio-tagged = bird with radio transmitter; surfwind.z = surface wind speed (standardized).