Frontiers in Zoology

Table 2 Variation in mean hourly locomotor activity in winter and summer

From: Urban-like night illumination reduces melatonin release in European blackbirds (Turdus merula): implications of city life for biological time-keeping of songbirds

	Winter				Summer
Parameters	Estimate	Lower 95%	Upper 95%	pMCMC	Estimate	Lower 95%	Upper 95%	pMCMC
intercept	0.44	0.35	0.53	< 0.001	0.63	0.50	0.75	< 0.001
time of day	−0.01	−0.01	0.00	< 0.001	−0.01	−0.01	−0.00	< 0.001
treatment	0.33	0.22	0.43	< 0.001	0.41	0.23	0.59	< 0.001
origin	0.03	−0.01	0.13	0.629	0.12	−0.06	0.29	0.168
time of day * treatment					−0.01	−0.02	−0.01	< 0.001
time of day * origin					0.01	0.00	0.01	0.030
treatment * origin					−0.46	−0.71	−0.21	< 0.001
time of day* treatment* origin					0.01	0.00	0.01	0.007

Models are LMMs. Reference levels: treatment = control group, origin = rural birds. For each parameter we show the estimated mean, the lower and upper 95% CI and the p-value calculated based on MCMC (pMCMC). Non-significant interactions were sequentially removed (empty cells). Significant results are printed in bold.

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