Supplementary Information
Carbone et al.
Data were obtained from Carbone & Gittleman (2002) and the additional sources below.
Additional Sources for data in Table S1:
Species
Least weasel
Mustela nivalis
Canadian lynx
Lynx canadensis
European badger
Meles meles
Coyote
Canis latrans
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Lion
Panthera leo
Tiger
Panthera tigris
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Table S2
OUR ANALYSIS WITH CHEETAH AND WILD DOG INCLUDED:
summary(lm(formula = logN ~ logM * logP))
Residuals:
Min
1Q
Median
3Q
Max
-1.47015 -0.26533 -0.03806 0.28440 1.46609
Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept)
1.22248
0.27259
4.485 1.16e-05
logM
-1.40693
0.17167 -8.196 1.77e-14
logP
0.22551
0.10853
2.078
0.0388
logM:logP
0.25882
0.06474
3.998 8.62e-05
--Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘
Residual standard error: 0.4821 on 229 degrees of freedom
Multiple R-squared: 0.607,
Adjusted R-squared: 0.6019
F-statistic: 117.9 on 3 and 229 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16
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