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Table 1 Ordinal linear model of bird richness

From: Temporal and spatial variation in bird and human use of beaches in southern California

Independent variable

Effect

df

Chi-Square

 P

Slope

−0.09

1

2.56

0.1098

Month

 

11

38.14

<.0001

Year

 

3

2.30

0.5116

Sqrt(% algal wrack)

0.20

1

8.72

0.0031

Sqrt(Distance to estuary)

−0.01

1

3.27

0.0705

Sqrt(Human activity)

−0.11

1

7.82

0.0052

Tide

−0.01

1

0.01

0.9138

Month*Tide

 

11

18.23

0.0763

Tide*Slope

−0.05

1

2.15

0.143

# observers

 

1

0.36

0.5458

G

 

1

0.01

0.9155

W

 

1

0.52

0.4702

F

 

1

0.02

0.8859

K

 

1

0.09

0.7697

T

 

1

0.00

0.9754

N

 

1

1.00

0.317

C

 

1

5.31

0.0212

B

 

1

0.24

0.6275

  1. R-square = 0.09, ChiSquare = 192.2 DF = 40, P <.0001. Estuary refers to the inverse of the shortest distance from the transect to an estuary. Letter codes refer to observers. Effect sign is negative to that given in statistical output to indicate the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable as in a General Linear Model.