Results of the relationship between coral cover at Ningaloo Reef and explanatory variables using general linear mixed-effects model comparison based on Akaike’s information criterion (AICc) corrected for small sample sizes.

All models include the random effect ‘sampling site’. For each of the models contrasted, maximum log-likelihood (-LL), AICc, AIC weight (wAICc), and the % deviation explained (%DE) are shown..