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%.