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. 2017 May 4;12(5):e0176951. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176951

Table 3. Parameter estimates of bat box, glider box, possum box and POSEM LMMs.

The three variables with the largest effect size relative to the intercept are highlighted in bold for each bat and glider box model; two variables are highlighted for each possum box and POSEM model. ‘ln’ indicates that the response was log-transformed to improve model residual plots.

Explanatory variable(s) TboxMAX TboxMEAN Tbox-Ta TboxMAX-TboxMIN
Est SE Est SE Est SE Est SE
Bat boxes ln ln ln
Intercept (Dark-green, East) 3.340 0.019 3.080 0.010 1.804 0.105 2.594 0.037
Ta variable 0.209 0.001 0.176 0.001 0.162 0.008 0.457 0.004
White -0.195 0.025 -0.108 0.013 -1.458 0.146 -0.377 0.049
Light-green -0.122 0.025 -0.058 0.013 -0.816 0.15 -0.216 0.051
South -0.096 0.026 -0.043 0.012 -0.774 0.149 -0.181 0.053
West 0.051 0.028 -0.005 0.013 -0.089 0.157 0.095 0.056
North 0.096 0.026 0.036 0.012 0.227 0.15 0.184 0.053
White * South 0.126 0.035 0.058 0.017 0.804 0.207 0.224 0.069
White * West 0.003 0.036 0.018 0.018 0.287 0.212 0.017 0.071
White * North -0.054 0.035 -0.014 0.017 -0.138 0.206 -0.101 0.068
Light-green * South 0.082 0.036 0.021 0.017 0.333 0.209 0.159 0.071
Light-green * West 0.045 0.037 0.011 0.018 0.388 0.215 0.093 0.074
Light-green * North -0.001 0.036 0.000 0.017 0.181 0.209 0.019 0.071
Canopy openness -0.008 0.006 -0.005 0.004 -0.021 0.038 -0.005 0.012
Glider boxes—summer ln
Intercept (Dark-green, East) 31.323 0.488 24.024 0.209 2.214 0.059 16.05 0.451
Ta variable 5.703 0.071 4.116 0.030 0.026 0.011 5.118 0.071
White -4.947 0.627 -2.285 0.252 -0.687 0.059 -4.744 0.544
Light-green -2.608 0.624 -1.132 0.257 -0.287 0.073 -2.525 0.600
South 0.255 0.347 0.144 0.207 0.038 0.054 0.204 0.264
Solar exposure 1.334 0.149 0.819 0.050 0.225 0.016 1.369 0.153
White * Solar exposure -1.267 0.158 -0.761 0.054 -0.125 0.020 -1.284 0.162
Light-green * Solar exposure -0.721 0.199 -0.403 0.085 -0.037 0.023 -0.745 0.206
Glider boxes—winter ln
Intercept (Dark-green, East) 17.593 0.443 12.207 0.147 1.921 0.085 10.726 0.424
Ta variable 1.773 0.037 1.786 0.012 -0.071 0.013 3.030 0.060
White -4.490 0.453 -1.888 0.189 -1.200 0.104 -4.098 0.430
Light-green -3.122 0.474 -1.308 0.185 -0.649 0.103 -2.712 0.454
South -1.042 0.239 -0.492 0.107 -0.403 0.084 -0.471 0.181
Solar exposure 1.611 0.177 0.656 0.054 0.312 0.025 1.733 0.173
White * Solar exposure -1.429 0.181 -0.713 0.056 -0.147 0.033 -1.362 0.175
Light-green * Solar exposure -1.107 0.191 -0.496 0.059 -0.084 0.032 -1.043 0.184
Possum boxes—summer ln
Intercept (Dark-green, East) 28.905 0.402 22.934 0.132 1.565 0.091 4.092 0.448
Ta variable 5.458 0.140 4.204 0.045 0.127 0.033 0.919 0.029
Light-green -2.242 0.568 -0.598 0.168 -0.480 0.161 -2.157 0.494
Solar exposure 0.492 0.141 0.348 0.033 0.386 0.032 0.865 0.156
Possum boxes—winter
Intercept (Dark-green, East) 16.356 0.345 11.916 0.152 5.068 0.445 8.957 0.435
Ta variable 1.826 0.082 1.798 0.024 -0.222 0.084 3.612 0.137
Light-green -2.155 0.455 -0.863 0.212 -2.521 0.614 -1.277 0.490
Solar exposure 0.975 0.091 0.456 0.038 1.432 0.115 0.566 0.149
POSEM ln
Intercept (Dark-green, Occupied, Summer) 3.623 0.027 28.527 0.451 8.736 0.547 17.768 0.563
Light-green -0.118 0.031 -0.900 0.287 -2.429 0.736 -2.750 0.737
Status (Unoccupied) -0.103 0.024 -2.158 0.261 -2.317 0.240 -0.599 0.465
Season (Winter) -0.826 0.025 -15.466 0.445 -2.040 0.463 -2.797 0.381