posted on 2025-09-22, 01:49authored byDavid J. Rugg, Christine A. Ribic, Deahn M. Donner, Albert J. Beck, Daniel M. Wolcott, Sue Reinecke, Dan Eklund
<p><b>Table 1.</b> American beaver (<i>Castor canadensis)</i> colonization-geomorphology models in the competitive set resulting from information–theoretic model selection on geomorphology variables.</p><table><tr><th>Model</th><th><i>N</i></th><th><i>K</i></th><th>AIC <i>c</i></th><th>ΔAIC <i>c</i></th><th>Akaike weight Evidence ratio</th><th>Adj <i>R</i> 2</th><th>AUC</th></tr><tr><th>Drainage class + stream alkalinity + stream gradient + stream temperature + stream width + water source + valley relief</th><td>3081</td><td>11</td><td>3980.7</td><td>0</td><td>0.409</td><td></td><td>0.115</td><td>0.6759</td></tr><tr><th>Drainage class + stream alkalinity + stream gradient + stream temperature + stream width + water source + valley relief + watershed area</th><td>3081</td><td>12</td><td>3981.4</td><td>0.71</td><td>0.287</td><td>1.426</td><td>0.115</td><td>0.6769</td></tr><tr><th>Drainage class + stream alkalinity + stream gradient + stream temperature + stream width + water source</th><td>3081</td><td>10</td><td>3982.6</td><td>1.98</td><td>0.152</td><td>2.691</td><td>0.113</td><td>0.6750</td></tr><tr><th>Drainage class + stream alkalinity + stream gradient + stream temperature + stream width + water source + watershed area</th><td>3081</td><td>11</td><td>3983.6</td><td>2.94</td><td>0.094</td><td>4.349</td><td>0.113</td><td>0.6756</td></tr><tr><th>Constant</th><td>3081</td><td>1</td><td>4236.2</td><td>255.58</td><td><0.00001</td><td>3.15E + 55</td><td>0</td><td></td></tr></table><p>Notes:</p>Published as part of <i>Rugg, David J., Ribic, Christine A., Donner, Deahn M., Beck, Albert J., Wolcott, Daniel M., Reinecke, Sue & Eklund, Dan, 2023, Factors affecting site selection by beavers colonizing streams in the upper Midwest region of the United States, pp. 735 in Canadian Journal of Zoology 101 (9)</i> on page 735, DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2022-0186, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/15677674">http://zenodo.org/record/15677674</a>