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.