Akaike's information criterion (AIC) is increasingly being used in analyses in the field of
ecology. This measure allows one to compare and rank multiple competing models and to …

Repeatability (more precisely the common measure of repeatability, the intra‐class
correlation coefficient, ICC) is an important index for quantifying the accuracy of …

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …

Growing interest in proximate and ultimate causes and consequences of between‐and
within‐individual variation in labile components of the phenotype–such as behaviour or …

Linear regression models are an important statistical tool in evolutionary and ecological
studies. Unfortunately, these models often yield some uninterpretable estimates and …

Fitting generalised linear models (GLMs) with more than one predictor has become the
standard method of analysis in evolutionary and behavioural research. Often, GLMs are …

Phylogenetic generalised least squares (PGLS) is one of the most commonly employed
phylogenetic comparative methods. The technique, a modification of generalised least …

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) An essential textbook for any student or
researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sampling programs or analyse the …

Traffic affects large areas of natural habitat worldwide. As a result, the acoustic signals used
by birds and other animals are increasingly masked by traffic noise. Masking of signals …

The capacity of Homo sapiens for the intergenerational accumulation of complex
technologies, practices, and beliefs is central to contemporary accounts of human …