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Table 1 Research hypotheses and corresponding model parameters

From: Microrefuges and the occurrence of thermal specialists: implications for wildlife persistence amidst changing temperatures

Hypothesis

Model parameters

Local habitat

Best local-habitat model

Surface temperature (magnitude)

SurfTemp.mean + SurfTemp.mean2

Surface temperature (variation)

SurfTemp.sd

Interstitial temperature (magnitude)

InterstitialTemp.mean

Interstitial temperature (variation)

InterstitialTemp.sd

Microrefuge (magnitude)

|TempDiff.mean|

Microrefuge (variation)

TempDiff.sd

  1. Four alternative hypotheses about the relationship between American pika (Ochotona princeps) occurrence and microrefuges, and the corresponding model parameters. Three of our four hypotheses included predictions associated with both magnitude (mean value of a temperature parameter) and constancy (standard deviation of a temperature parameter). These hypotheses, consequently, appear twice
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Climate Change Responses

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