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Table 1 Hourly brooding rates

From: Offspring thermal demands and parental brooding efficiency differ for precocial birds living in contrasting climates

Response

Effect type

Effect

Estimate

95% CrI

Lower

Upper

% of brooding in 1 h

Fixed

Intercept

– 2.302

– 2.521

– 2.091

  

Brooding before

0.574

0.468

0.679

  

Night (yes)

1.434

1.266

1.607

  

SpeciesVV

– 1.886

– 2.398

– 1.379

  

Sin (time)

– 0.557

– 0.743

– 0.373

  

Cos (time)

0.97

0.584

1.369

  

Ambient temperature

– 3.01

– 3.505

– 2.503

  

Head length

– 0.526

– 0.693

– 0.357

  

SpeciesVV: Sin (time)

– 0.889

– 1.285

– 0.495

  

SpeciesVV: Cos (time)

1.476

0.897

2.053

  

SpeciesVV: Ambient temp.

0.408

– 0.356

1.163

  

SpeciesVV:Head length

– 0.251

– 0.618

0.132

  

Sin (time): Ambient temp

– 0.379

– 0.528

– 0.227

  

Cos (time): Ambient temp

0.77

0.56

0.986

  

Sin (time):Head length

0.189

0.1

0.281

  

Cos (time):Head length

0.428

0.241

0.629

 

Random % variance

ID chick nested in family (Intercept)

1%

  
  

Sin (time)

1%

  
  

Cos (time)

1%

  
  

Ambient temperature

8%

  
  

ID family (Intercept)

8%

  
  

Sin (time)

3%

  
  

Cos (time)

21%

  
  

Ambient temperature

29%

  
  

OLRE

28%

  
  1. Posterior estimates (medians) of effect sizes with 95% credible intervals (Crl) from a posterior distribution of 5000 simulated values generated by the ‘sim’ function in R [49]. Variance components were estimated by the ‘glmer’ function for binomial errors with the logit link function [46]. Continuous predictors and the random slope were z-transformed (mean-centred and divided by SD). Those contrasts with 95% credible intervals not containing 0 are highlighted in bold.