Table 1. 1 AICc comparisons of the top candidate models
explaining variation in rates of plasticity (λE )
in temperature tolerance among different classes of ectothermic animals.
‘Class’ is taxonomic class, ’Slope’ is the slope of the estimated
exponential decay function at the final measurement, ‘Measure’ is the
measurement type of thermal tolerance (behaviour vs. mortality), and
‘Mass’ is body mass. Species identity, study and observation are
included as random intercepts in all models.
ΔAICC = 12.8 and
14.6 for the best model among those not listed for the top and bottom
data set, respectively.