Forest Succession and Maternity Day Roost Selection by Myotis septentrionalis in a Mesophytic Hardwood Forest

Table 4

Rankings of models used to compare female Myotis septentrionalis day roosts used during lactation and non-lactation periods on the Fort Knox military reservation in Hardin, Bullitt, and Meade counties, Kentucky, USA, 2011. Model parameters are given as well as number of parameters (), Akaike’s information criteria (AIC) value, difference in AIC value between top model and th model (), and model support ().

Model		AIC
Gap fraction + LAI + PPFD	5	128.33	0	0.94
Percent +  +  + elevation + gap Fraction + LAI + PPFD	9	135.21	6.89	0.03
Null model	2	137.01	8.69	0.01
Decay + percent bark + gap fraction + LAI + PPFD	11	137.95	9.62	0.01
dbh + height	4	138.95	10.63	0.00
Percent slope +  +  + elevation	6	140.78	12.46	0.00
dbh + height + decay + percent bark	10	143.14	14.81	0.00
dbh + height + decay + percent bark + percent Slope +  +  + elevation + gap Fraction + LAI + PPFD	17	145.15	16.83	0.00
Decay + percent bark	8	146.13	17.81	0.00