Table A5: Generalised Additive Model to explain variation in
hourly abundance of Daubenton’s bats , detected at Middle Earth
cave in 2018, using automated acoustic monitoring. The model used a
negative binomial error family and a log-link function. The prediction
plot from this model is shown in Figure 5 (i). Max k = 15, e.d.f. =
effective degrees of freedom. Overdispersion statistic = 0.974, deviance
explained = 71.6%.