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	***

Relationship between the number of slugs in gardens and meteorological and ecological factors, calculated with a generalized linear model. Abbreviations are explained in Table 1

Significance codes are *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05