Table 2 Relationship between the number of slugs in gardens and meteorological and ecological factors
Coefficients | Estimate | Std. error | z value | Pr(> |z|) | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Intercept) | 5.52E+00 | 8.43E−01 | 6.541 | 6.11E−11 | *** |
Sum of the mean daily temperature from the beginning of the year until the day of data collection (smetcy) | − 6.51E−04 | 1.67E−04 | − 3.888 | 0.000101 | *** |
Number of earthworm casts under the cardboard (worms) | 7.71E−02 | 1.37E−02 | 5.64 | 1.70E−08 | *** |
Number of days below 0 °C from the winter before data collection (September to April) (frostwint) | − 8.69E−03 | 2.22E−03 | − 3.91 | 9.22E−05 | *** |
Applied slug control methods in the previous year and the year of data collection (comc) | 8.02E−02 | 3.37E−02 | 2.381 | 0.017267 | * |
Global radiation on the day of data collection (rad) | − 2.75E−04 | 4.48E−05 | − 6.123 | 9.17E−10 | *** |
Mean vapour pressure on the day of data collection (mvp) | − 2.85E−02 | 1.14E−02 | − 2.494 | 0.012639 | * |
Number of days without precipitation from March to September from the year previous to data collection (drypy) | − 1.66E−02 | 4.07E−03 | − 4.08 | 4.50E−05 | *** |
Sum of the mean temperature from the year previous to data collection (smetpy) | − 3.91E−04 | 9.62E−05 | − 4.066 | 4.79E−05 | *** |
Precipitation on the day of data collection (prec) | 7.78E−03 | 3.87E−03 | 2.012 | 0.044244 | * |
Meters above sea level of the samplings site (alt) | − 1.31E−03 | 3.32E−04 | − 3.937 | 8.27E−05 | *** |
Number of plants in a radius of 2 m around the data collection point (plants) | 5.22E−02 | 7.05E−03 | 7.404 | 1.32E−13 | *** |