List of Tables
Table 1. Number of harbor seal scat from the Salish Sea with successful sex determination from all locations, months, and years. Within each monthly column the numbers are as follows: female scat, male scat. If multiple collection bouts occurred at a single haul-out within one month the total number of scat for that month is listed. An “na” indicates no scat were collected at that site during that month. Abundance estimates for Belle Chaine, Cowichan Bay, Comox, and Fraser River where calculated from Olesiuk et al. (2009). The abundance estimate for Baby Island was taken from Jeffries et al. (2003).
Table 2. GLMM models of prey specialization in Salish Sea harbor seals. The r² fixed column indicates how much variance was explained solely by the fixed effects. The r² column indicates how much variance was explained by both fixed and random effects. The AIC column indicates the fit of each model, lower values indicate a better model. The \(w_{i}\) column indicates the relative likelihood of each model being the best model of those tested. Analysis represents 1,083 samples from groups with >5 samples.
Table 3. Correlations of prey proportions by taxonomic order to\(\text{PS}_{i}\) values of Salish Sea harbor seals. Only significant correlations (p < 0.0038) are shown. A negative rho value indicates a positive correlation with specialization. Analysis represents 1,083 samples from groups with >5 samples. A total of twelve prey orders were included in the analysis. Data are organized by correlation value.
Table 4. Correlations of prey proportions by taxonomic order to\(\text{PS}_{i}\) values of Salish Sea female harbor seals. Only significant correlations (p < 0.0038) are shown. A negative rho value indicates a positive correlation with specialization. Analysis represents 498 samples from groups with >5. A total of twelve prey orders were included in the analysis. Data are organized by correlation value.
Table 5. Correlations of prey proportions by taxonomic order to\(\text{PS}_{i}\) values of Salish Sea male harbor seals. Only significant correlations (p < 0.0038) are shown. A negative rho value indicates a positive correlation with specialization. Analysis represents 647 samples from groups with >5 samples. A total of twelve prey orders were included in the analysis. Data are organized by correlation value.