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%.