Table A6: Generalised Additive Model to explain variation in hourly abundance of Natterer’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 (ii). Max k = 15, e.d.f. = effective degrees of freedom. Overdispersion statistic = 1.248, deviance explained = 77.2%.