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Table 3 Effect of brooding rate on chick growth

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

Residual growth speed [g/day]

Fixed

Intercept

0.434

− 1.078

1.96

  

Brooding rate

− 1.34

− 5.624

2.86

  

SpeciesVV

− 1.608

− 4.646

1.314

  

Brooding rate:SpeciesVV

4.318

− 2.827

11.692

 

Random % variance

ID family (Intercept)

72%

  
  

Residual

28%

  
  1. Posterior estimates (medians) of the 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 “lmer” function with the Gaussian error structure [50]. The contrasts with 95% credible intervals not containing 0 are highlighted in bold