Table 3.

Results of the Generalized Additive Model (GAM) analysing the abundance of spider guilds in 21 native shrubs with different abundance of pests and sampling period as covariates.

Model	Types of Variables	Variables	Estimate	SE	χ2	df	p Value
Hunter spiders	Numerical	Whitefly abundance	0.015	0.005	18.771	1	<0.001
	Numerical	Thrips abundance	−0.005	0.004	7.943	1	<0.01
	Categorical	Plant species			193.792	20	<0.001
	Smoothed	Month of sampling			113.1	8.35	<0.001
Web-weavers	Numerical	Whitefly abundance	0.014	0.007	4.0544	1	<0.05
	Numerical	Thrips abundance	−0.004	0.004	0.782	1	0.3765
	Categorical	Plant species			164.204	20	<0.001
	Smoothed	Month of sampling			336	8.89	<0.001