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Model selection results from multimodel averaging, according to the AICc. Akaike weights are shown. The log-likelihood (logLik) measures how well the model fits observed data; higher values indicate a better fit.
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The future of marine ecosystems is at risk due to climate change and other human impacts. Specifically, due to ocean warming, some tropical species are expanding their populations while populations of temperate species are in regression, making the establishment of conservation measures imperative to maintain local biodiversity. In this study we es...
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... population densities were found in the easternmost island (Lanzarote), followed by the central island (Tenerife) (158.5 ± 281.306 and 52.2 ± 86.14, mean ± SD, respectively), while no specimens were found in the warmest westernmost island (El Hierro) (Figures 4 and 5). Wave power and SSTmean were the most relevant variables to explain B. regia distribution; the most parsimonious model included both predictors, according to the AICc (Table 1). SSTmean showed a statistically significant estimated coefficient of −1.61 (Table 2), which means that for each one-unit increase in SSTmean, the expected log count of the number of corallites decreases by −40.74. ...Citations
... Despite these variables were not specifically measured in this study, some of them may be influencing the observed patterns, especially those related to substrate, topography or wave exposure. Others such as surface sea water temperature and primary productivity are relatively stable over the north, north-east orientation of the island of Tenerife, where our sites of study were placed (Aristegui et al., 1997;Barton et al., 1998;López et al., 2020López et al., , 2024Vélez-Belchí et al., 2015). Thus, further research incorporating these variables and additional locations is needed to assess more thoroughly crab preferences for different hosts. ...
