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Table 4 Summary of the best GAMM model estimating the association between wing length, diet and conspecific density

From: Diet and density dependent competition affect larval performance and oviposition site selection in the mosquito species Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)

  

Fixed terms

Smooth terms

Experiment

Parameter

Estimate

SE

Z

P

Structure

DF

P

1

Intercept

2.603

0.018

201

<0.001

f(Diet ~ CD)*

8

<0.001

2

Intercept

1.897

0.227

18

<0.001

f(Diet ~ CD)

5

<0.001

  1. * Represents the structure of the smoothing term: f(D) only Diet is significant, f(C) only conspecific density is significant, f(Diet ~ CD) the non-linear association between diet and conspecific density is significant.
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