Model selection procedures in social research: Monte-Carlo simulation results

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Using information theory as a substitute for stepwise regression in ecology and behavior (2010, unknown): “The best model according to the AIC or AICc is usually complex, and often includes variables, and even interactions, with very small effects (Raffalovich et al. 2008; Murtaugh 2009).”
The influences of wolf predation, habitat loss, and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands (2011, unknown): “Pine–lichen and black spruce-related covariates were the least influential, based on SIC differences, suggesting that resource selection by caribou may be driven less by these forage-related resources than by other mechanisms, such as predator avoidance.”
Early assessment of the impact of alien species: differential consequences of an invasive crayfish on adult and larval amphibians (2011, methodology): “We considered a complex model only if it had a D-AIC lower than the D-AIC of all its simpler nested models; furthermore, we considered only models including significant variables (Raffalovich et al., 2008; Denoël et al., 2009; Richards et al., 2011).”